From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, House Republicans finally have everything they want,

control of Congress, a Republican president, and a health care plan.

So why, as they head to a vote today, is the bill so disliked and the party so divided,

and a view from the scene of yesterday's deadly attacks in London?

It's Thursday, March 23rd.

Thanks, Senator Burr.

All good morning.

We start back in the summer of 2009.

The current tax treatment of health care, which is a relic of World War II,

discriminates against the self-employed, against the unemployed, and against those people

who do not get health coverage at their jobs. This may have worked in America.

When everybody had the same job throughout their lives and throughout their careers,

that's not the America we have today.

Nearly a year before President Obama signed his plan for reforming American health care,

a 39-year-old up-and-coming congressman, Paul Ryan,

introduced a Republican plan to overhaul the same system.

You see, we already spend twice as much per person on health care in America

than all the other industrialized countries.

The answer is, take the money we're already spending and spend it far more efficiently,

far more effectively, to reflect the dynamics of the 21st century,

so that the center of this system is not politicians and bureaucrats making the decisions.

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