President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans clashed in a live-TV summit earlier today over the nation’s broken health care system. “We have a very difficult gap to bridge here,” said Rep. Eric Cantor. “We just can’t afford this. That’s the ultimate problem.”

The more than six-hour debate was essentially a condensed, one-day version of the entire past year of debate over the nation’s health care crisis. With Democrats in control of the White House and Congress, they were left with the critical decision about where to go next.

Obama and his Democratic allies argued today that a broad overhaul is imperative for the nation’s future economic vitality. The president stated that  health care is “one of the biggest drags on our economy,” tying his top domestic priority to an issue that’s even more pressing to many Americans. What do you think?