Health care reform is more than likely going to pass. Dennis Kucinich announced his intention to vote for the bill. I believe others will follow suit. Why? Because the failure of this bill will most assuredly be the death knell for current Dems and probably Obama’s presidency. And, that’s what it’s all about.

The demonizing of the current health care reform bill, as I’ve said ad nauseam here and elsewhere, has little or nothing to do with health care or even with ideology when considering most congressional Reps. It is political. Nothing more. The Reps and most people residing here at BC of whatever ilk are absolutely soiling their Fruit of the Looms at the prospect of dumping the Dems in November and Obama in 2012 — or what would provide even more of enematic effect would be his early resignation. The country would be awash in the “Red State Runs.”

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The status quo would have been better than this middle ground. In order to see any real reduction in Health Care COSTS for the American Taxpayer, a single payer Universal Health Care System would have been better. Certainly there would have been problems (nothing is perfect) but when you can eliminate the ‘profits’ of Hospitals & Health Insurance (which is passed onto the consmer), administrative costs, reduce the pay of medical staff, eliminate or vastly reduce the people that may sue a doctor (because they are Government employees) & curtail the profit margins of companies selling medical goods..it would have been better in the long run (and it would have covered everyone).

Last fall, climate legislation stalled in the Senate as health care reform took center stage. Now that the health care overhaul has passed—without a single Republican vote supporting it—attention is turning to how it will affect President Obama’s chances of pushing through a bill to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The task may prove even more difficult in the political environment the acrimonious health care debate has created.

At BusinessGreen.com, James Murray writes that the likelihood of passing climate legislation received a “major boost” last night:

Some senior Democrat Senators have suggested that following such a long battle to pass healthcare legislation the Senate will have “no appetite” to deal with a climate change bill that is likely to prove equally contentious. However, both the administration and Democrat leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives remain adamant that they want to pursue a vote this year and with the party still behind in the polls ahead of November’s mid-term elections the race is now on to move the legislation forward as quickly as possible.

Reuters points out that how health care reform is received will likely affect Obama’s other agenda items: The healthcare victory provides a resounding denunciation to critics who had termed him a ditherer with little to show for 14 months in office. If successful, it could give him momentum on a range of other signature causes, including job creation bills, his proposed financial regulatory package, immigration reform and climate change. But if healthcare reform proves unpopular, Obama will find it even more difficult to gain traction on those issues.

The Chicago Tribune notes that still struggling economy is likely to be the White House and Democrats top priority in the coming months. “Almost certainly, that means putting off energy, climate change, immigration and other issues for at least a little longer.”

governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts to:
  * Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through either public sector insurance  
    programs or private sector insurance companies
  * Expand the array of health care providers consumers may choose among
  * Improve the access to health care specialists
  * Improve the quality of health care
  * Decrease the cost of health care