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

Today, for seven years, they've waited for the chance to dismantle President Obama's

affordable care app. So why are some Republicans now revolting against the Republican plan to

replace it? We take a close look at the bill to understand, and we call a former Republican

presidential candidate for his take. It's Wednesday, March 8th.

Mary S. Truman, President and President-Elect comes before Congress. The state of the union,

he says, is good. We begin in 1948. The greatest gap in our social security structure

is the lack of adequate provision for the nation's health. We are rightly proud of the high standards

of medical care. We know how to provide in the United States. The fact is, however, that most of

our people cannot afford to pay for the care they need. And so it began. This great nation cannot

afford to allow its citizens to suffer needlessly from the lack of proper medical care.

Like dozens of allies after the Second World War, the United States started to debate whether

to create a nationwide healthcare system. By July of that year, Britain had a national

healthcare program, and soon enough, similar programs were enacted in Sweden, Iceland, Norway,

Denmark, and Finland. Then, Japan, Canada, Italy, and China.

By the end of the 1970s, the idea had spread through much of the industrialized world.

In the United States, programs like Medicare and Medicaid were developed to protect

specific groups like the elderly or the poor. But, because of its size, because of its history,

because of its nature, the U.S. never enacted such sweeping legislation until 2010.

Today, after almost a century of trying, today, after over a year of debate,

today, after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America.

But, as soon as it was signed, before it was signed,

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