The Left Debates the Healthcare Bill

It's becoming apparent that if President Obama's health reform does fail, it will fall victim at least as much to opposition from the Democratic left as from Republicans.

Here's something to follow today: a debate at TPM Cafe about what liberals and progressives should think of the dwindling health care bill emerging from the Senate. Too many compromises?

Paul Starr says NO; Bob Reich says YES.

Starr:

The health-care reform legislation pending in Congress would be the largest program on behalf of low- to moderate-income people in the United States since the 1960s.

Reich:

The private insurers are winning and the public is losing.

Follow along, because it's becoming apparent that if President Obama's health reform does fail, it will fall victim at least as much to opposition from the Democratic left as from Republicans.