Window closing for healthcare reform: Biden

[Peacetrain]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If the U.S. Congress fails to agree on a healthcare bill soon, the opportunity for a sweeping overhaul of the $2.5 trillion system will be lost for a generation, Vice President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday.

Biden was speaking just hours before Democratic lawmakers were to meet at the White House with President Barack Obama, who is pressing them to reach agreement and pass a bill on his signature domestic policy issue.

Obama has invested much of his political capital in trying to get the Democratic-controlled Congress to pass a healthcare bill by the end of the year. The bill has been passed by the House of Representatives, but Democrats have struggled to win the 60 votes they need in the Senate.

Edit to add link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091215/pl_nm/us_usa_healthcare_biden

[Clio the Leo]

1. Not only will we kick ourselves later if we dont get this passed...

... we'll be kicking ourselves while paying higher insurance premiums ..... or while having no insurance at all.

[Peacetrain]

2. That is about it.. we cannot go another generation

without some help here.. the time is now!

[Vincardog]

3. Too bad Obama didn't invest some of his political capital in passing meaningful HCR.

[Peacetrain]

4. He has and is..been investing much of his politcal capital in this

[Clio the Leo]

5. Yes, because Obama has the power to bend Lieberman to his will....

OR he could have worked harder to get some of the GOP on board .... which folks would have not liked either.

Lieberman was the rock, Olympia was the hard place.

[Vincardog]

6. It makes you wonder why Obama supported Lieberman's election doesn't it?

It is starting to look like Obama was the best the Republicans could do.

[Clio the Leo]

8. None of us can really point the finger of blame on that one...

(and yes, I realize you're not talking about THAT election.)

[WeDidIt]

7. Then SHUT THAT FUCKER already!

Sheesh.

Close it.

Status quo is better than the piece of shit welfare for insurance companies bill working its way through now.