Obama Signs the Health Care Bill

President Obama Signs the Health Care Bill
Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME

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President Barack Obama smiles next to Vice President Joe Biden before signing the health insurance reform bill in the East Room of the White House. "We have just now enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care," the President said.

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