Make Or Break Week for HCR

In the month since Scott Brown’s January 19 win in Massachusetts, health care reform has gone from all but dead, to showing a few weak signs of life, to perhaps on the road to a full recovery. Emphasis on perhaps. It all depends on whether Democrats succeed in getting their act together. That starts this morning with the White House unveiling its proposal for reform, the first time President Obama has put his name behind specific policy provisions rather than just broad political principles.