When we elected President Obama it was pretty clear we were going to have some sort of healthcare changes.  What makes me smile is that if the final plan was put beside the initial recommendations Senator McCain and Senator Obama as they presented their ideas in the campaign, it looks to me like the final plan much more closely resembles Senator McCain’s plan than  Senator Obama’s.  Yet in the final vote the plan is essentially a party line vote, all Democrats for the final plan, and all Republicans against it.   It’s funny how this all works out.

Little wonder that what to me looks to be, and itself professes to be a bipartisan group endorses many parts of the bill, and commends the senators for their work.

This originally published in The Medical News an article by previous Senate Majority leaders Baker, Daschle and Dole.

BPC supports passage of health care bill

28. December 2009 01:24

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle and Bob Dole, members of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Advisory Board and Leaders’ Project on the State of American Health Care, commend their former Senate colleagues for passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 today.

Senators Baker, Daschle and Dole released their bipartisan plan for comprehensive health care reform, Crossing Our Lines: Working Together to Reform the U.S. Health System, in June after 14 months of negotiations. Their politically-viable framework addresses the delivery, cost, coverage and financing challenges facing our nation’s health care system

This could almost be a new Genres of Literature.

This could be a new