It is my opinion that the health care legislation was the biggest mistake the president made, and not for the reasons most people beleive. His mistake was in spending the first months of his presidency, and much of his political capital focusing on healthcare, to the exclusion of other things which could have benefited the country more immediately. In the end he got the worst of all possible outcomes - a bartered piece of legislation which pleased no one, and is so complex and far reaching that virtually no one really knows what is accomplished by it. The far right can attack it with impunity, as it is so convoluted as to be almost impossible to defend. The far left doesn't like it because it failed to provide pure socialized healthcare. There are parts of the plan which will be beneficial to the public good, and there are parts which will cause problems, and will probably have to be amended, but virtually no one embraces the whole.