I don't know what that snarky "King Obama" comment is supposed to mean, but health care reform was urgently needed and this was the best time to do it. We barely made it with a Democratic supermajority and a Democratic president. There wouldn't be a prayer without that configuration of Congress and this president.
Because it was basically 'crammed down our throat' and made priority 1 when job creation seemed like a higher priority to help get the economy going so the average Joe could afford the health care monthly payments and co-pays 
Health care reform was needed. He had to do it when it had the best chance of succeeding, because if not in the 2008-2010 term, we'd have to wait through ANOTHER 15 years of people being dropped from their insurance when they got sick, people being perpetually uninsurable due to a pre-existing condition, insured people going bankrupt after hitting some lifetime spending limit on their policy.
As I recall, the stimulus bill passed before the health care bill was even drafted. Sounds like economic recovery
was his top priority. Beyond that, statements to the effect of "don't do anything else while unemployment is too high" are not constructive because they offer criticism with no solution. Of course the quickest way to provide jobs would be to add a lot of public sector jobs. But that's not sustainable and just aggravates the deficit problem. The best idea is to stimulate the private sector to produce jobs, and that doesn't happen overnight.
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