Health summit: The 5 key clashes

Five notable spats from Thursday's contentious health care summit

5 key clashes
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Despite yielding a few points of agreement, Thursday's health care summit primarily served to highlight major — likely unbridgeable — differences between the two parties' agendas. Though the overall tenor of the summit was collegial, the underlying tension spilled over at times into contentious exchanges, generally involving President Obama and Republican members of Congress. From charges of budgetary "gimmicks" to claims of partisan timekeeping, here is a look at the defining clashes from the historic Blair House pow-wow:

1. Wait, is this 2008?

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