Senate Panel To Vote On Baucus Plan Next Tuesday

A number of media reports see momentum now building behind the President's push to overhaul the nation's healthcare system. ABC World News reported, "A vote is now set for next Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee on its $829 billion health care reform plan." The CBS Evening News noted that "according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the plan costs less than expected and would actually reduce the deficit.

So why do Republicans still oppose it?" CBS showed House Minority Whip Eric Cantor saying, "The fact is the numbers arrived at by taxing businesses, by taxing people who have insurance, as well as cutting benefits for seniors. That's not an acceptable health care reform recipe."

The AP reports Democrats "have made significant strides since Labor Day, when they returned to the Capitol in near disarray after an August spent absorbing attacks from noisy conservative critics at home." The New York Times reports that "Republicans were not impressed by the new numbers" from CBO,

Comment: It seems we all agree that our healthcare system needs to be fixed. Some of our lawmakers seem to actually be working on a solution. While the majority of them spend endless hours plotting how they can take political advantage of the disorder they themselves have created.

Our political system provides us with the means to advance our human condition while at the same time allowing us to place roadblocks to its realization.