The rules can always be "adjusted" significantly in 2012, when we have a GOP pres, GOP House and GOP Senate. They likely won't have have a super majority in the Senate, but there will easily be a handful of Dems that are willing to vote for "improvements" to the bill after the 2010 and 2012 Democratic bloodbaths. This could end up being a fairly easy law to make changes to, since the benefits don't kick in til 2014 and many of the tax increases start before then. Also, unemployment will be hovering close to 10% in November and above 8.5-9% in 2012. Add in all of the underemployed or "given up looking" and people won't feel too great about Obama and "the New Normal" in 2012. How big of a voting block of people with pre-existing conditions is there? It's actually quite small.
It is not Obama's fault that the job market is bad, nor is it his fault that companies fire Americans and then outsource the work to countries that offer cheap labor.
uhhh, no.. but it's his fault that his stimulus spending actually slows recovery and it's his fault that he expanded Government spending on healthcare during a horrible depression...
Since he took office in January 2009, the Dow has gone up about 37%, and many stocks have done extremely well.