It's all on the line this weekend for health-care reform.
Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post is on it.
"If health-care reform finally staggers across the finish line, it will be because President Obama and congressional Democrats recognized -- at long last -- the truth that has been staring them in the face for more than a year: They'll be better off politically if they just try their best to do the right thing."
"Yet the Republicans portray even this fairly modest set of fixes -- cautious, incremental, fiscally responsible -- as socialism run rampant. They portray the health-reform package as a government "takeover," although the idea of any kind of limited, restricted, tightly constrained little government-run health plan has long been abandoned. They portray Democrats as a bunch of wild-eyed leftists for a bill that Richard Nixon would have signed."
Paul Krugman at The New York Times nails it too.
"In every other advanced nation, insurance coverage is available to everyone regardless of medical history. Our system is unique in its cruelty."
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