Obama's health care reforms show that America has become an 'elective dictatorship'

By Toby Young World Last updated: March 22nd, 2010

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The vote tally for the Senate health care bill Photo: AP

Wow. Talk about close. 219-212. No wonder the anti-abortion Democrats were able to secure some last-minute concessions. If four representatives had switched sides, Obama would have lost the vote.

Has America been more politically divided over an issue since the Civil War? Civil Rights? At least that issue cut across party lines, whereas health care reform — or “socialised medicineâ€