Democrats score with healthcare reform

The healthcare reform has passed the first hurdle in the US Senate. The daily The Guardian sees in that an important victory for President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party: "The Senate's bill is still far from done and dusted. There are two other procedural votes and a further vote on Christmas Eve before it goes through, and those will require all 58 Democrats and two independents showing up in the snow. ... If the president signs it, it will still be the most significant healthcare legislation since Medicare and Medicaid were created in 1965. And that is some achievement. It makes Mr Obama a man of deeds not just words. The midterm elections will test all incumbents, not just Democrat ones, and with Republicans united against the change, healthcare reform gives the Democrats an unassailable argument: don't let the Republicans take the gains we have given you in healthcare away."

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