Over the last few days, Democrats have faced more challenges in getting the health care bill passed. Politico says:
Also an issue is that Senator Lieberman won't vote for the bill with the Medicare expansion included. The NY Times coverage is here and the Wall Street Journal coverage is here.Democrats must work out compromises on long-standing problems like the public option and abortion while dealing with more recent intraparty spats, like whether to allow consumers to buy Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs from other countries, an issue that stalled last week and remains stuck on the Senate floor......Most insiders agree that Democrats have until Thursday to work out their differences if they want to pass a bill by Dec. 23. It will take at least five or six days after Democrats move to end debate before they can vote on the bill. Democrats expect to begin the endgame early this week and still sound optimistic that they can get it done.
