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This past week was a crucial one in the young presidency of Barack Obama. With public support for health care reform and his administration in decline, he decided to regain control over the debate with a speech before a joint session of Congress.

With concessions to intransigent Republicans, reinforcement for wavering Democrats, and even a few specifics for skeptical citizens, the president hoped to resuscitate plans for an overhaul of the medical system.

And when 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft spoke with him Friday at the White House he seemed confident he had succeeded.

"I believe that we will have enough votes to pass not just any health care bill, but a good health care bill."

"I'm confident that we've got that," Obama said.

"Right now you've got just a political environment where there are those in the Republican Party who think the best thing to do is just to kill reform, that that will be good politics," Obama said.

The President said he's trying to work with Republicans, giving as an example concessions he may be willing to make on tort reform. "That's not something that's historically been popular in my party," he said.

But in the end, Obama said, the buck stops with him. "I'm the one who's going to be held responsible," the President said. "So I have every incentive to get this right."

I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails. That doesn't work. I intend to be president for a while, and once this bill passes, I own it.

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