Obama wins epic health-care battle

WASHINGTON–A watershed moment for America, a defining victory for its president. The core element of change upon which Barack Obama was elected came to pass Sunday night in the form of sweeping health-care reform. But the final gavel dropped as divisively as ever, with Washington lawmakers breaking along bitterly partisan lines, leaving Democrats alone to bear the glory – and the blame – for the most substantive expansion of the American social safety net in generations.