About Health care, Obama has always stressed the process and acknowledged the details of final plan will be subject to negotiation.  What isn't negotiable are the goals and there is no difference between the Edwards, Clinton, and Obama plan in terms of goals: affordable, subsidized plans open to all with no pre-conditions. He doesn't think mandates are necessary but has acknowledged they might be.  He doesn't think single payer is achievable now, but acknowledged he would be for it.  So that's where we are.  This allows him to place Hillary in a central position in Health Care Reform as a strong advocate for mandates without changing one iota from what he has articulated.