The Disaster in the Making
After that Massachussetts have elected their representative in the senate, could the health care reform bill still be able to land at the president’s desk?
Just after the passage of the Health Care Bill version of the House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t too very confident that the Democrats have won their cause. Few days later, the Senate made an already anticipated decision of passing Upper House’s own version of the controversial bill. As House Speaker Pelosi and Senate President Pro Tempore Byrd gets to reach their own house’s decision, their problem is to put all together the two version so to have one version submitted to the President. But something’s boggling both of the houses’ leaders despite the victory of their causes in their respective houses; there is still something that lacks. Hence, with the race of the Massachusetts Special Elections, the cloud has been cleared.
Just this week, an unexpected result shocked not just the Washington but the rest of the country. Massachusetts has now a Senator to represent them in the Upper House. Senator Scott Brown won against Attorney General Martha Coakley, a democrat. The special election was held to fill in the seat the late Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy vacated. For about four decades, Massachusetts has been represented by a democrat.
However, there are some things that keep the current situation an ever confusing one. Covered by the noise of Brown’s victory is the fact that the seat was vacated by Sen. Ted Kennedy. Kennedy played a major role in the creation and the passage of the present Health Care Bill and has championed every reform on health care in the past years. Unfortunately, Kennedy succumbed to cancer and passed away last year without seeing the bill signed by the President. If Brown’s is said to filibuster the bill his predecessor championed, what could it imply? Could it be a good move?
With these twists, the promise of a Health Care reform is somewhat again shrouded with doubts as Brown is being viewed as a filibuster. With the republicans winning the Massachusetts seat, democrats
Processing your request, Please wait....
