‘60 Minutes’: Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Care Reform

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the political cost of overhauling the health care system turned out to be higher than he had expected. And he admits that he gets discouraged at times when dealing with the economy.

In an interview airing Sunday night on CBS' "60 Minutes," Obama said the health care system itself is huge and complicated and that changing it eluded previous presidents because it was so difficult.

"I made the decision to go ahead and do it, and it proved as costly politically as we expected—probably actually a little more costly than we expected, politically," he said.