In My Opinion....
Well tea-baggers, naysayers and town hall meetings with no civility are now behind us and the work of Congress now seems to be to act on one of 4 health reform bills and possibly 700 amendments before the Thanksgiving break. Personally i think we may be waiting till Christmas Eve but time will tell.
That we need to fix a system that is broken is a given. How to do it is the issue. Four major points must be in any bill: affordable health care to all, accessible health care without prohibitions on pre-existing conditions or annual or lifetime limits, availability of coverage including diagnostic and preventative health coverage and administrative simple heath care that all Americans can understand.
Whether or not that will include a public option remains to be seen though personally i see the need for one.
The issue of reform is likely to turn on the views of a small number of moderates who are not yet hard and fast in either camp for or against and hopefully their decision will be without the interference of insurance company lobbyists or others with a special interest. The only special interest that needs to be met is that of those in need of health care protection.
2010 elections are a year away and already battle lines are being drawn and "key districts" plotted. Now the question will have to be "how are we going to run this election?" If its anything like the just ended town hall meetings i suspect we are in serious trouble. There seems to be an overriding lack of civility in political discourse of late that does not auger well for our nation. it used to be that you could disagree with people and have a debate without name calling or certainly the kind of shouting and histrionics we have recently seen. We need to get back to that time and curb the outer limits of both sides of a debate when they go beyond what is or should be frank and civil discussion.