WASHINGTON — The explosive politics of enrolling for healthcare have divided the nation, but America's governors, Republicans and Democrats alike, suggest that President Obama's healthcare overhaul is here to stay.
While governors from Connecticut to Louisiana sparred Sunday over how best to improve the nation's economy, governors of both parties shared a far more pragmatic outlook on the controversial program known as "Obamacare" as millions of their constituents begin to be covered.
"We're just trying to make the best of a bad situation," said Republican Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa, who called the health care law "unaffordable and unsustainable" yet something he has to implement by law. "We're trying to make it work as best we can for the people of Iowa."
Hosting them at an evening dinner, the president made joking reference to the ambitions of some governors to follow him into the White House.
"Tonight we want to make sure that all of you make yourselves at home – which I'm sure some of you are thinking, that's been the plan all along,'' Obama said to laughter.
He also said: "But keep in mind what a wise man once wrote: 'I am more than contented to be governor and shall not care if I never hold another office.'''
The former governor who said those words was Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican governor of New York who went on to become the nation's 26th president.
"So I guess plans change,'' President Obama said.
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