Democratic health care talks collapsing

Health care reform teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday as House and Senate leaders struggled to coalesce around a strategy to rescue the plan, in the face of growing pessimism among lawmakers that the president’s top priority can survive.

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But for the first time in the yearlong push, Democratic aides – and even some members finally acknowledged privately that the fear of failure was real.  And Congress recessed for the weekend without an obvious path forward as rank-and-file Democrats started splintering in different directions.

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