Shift in Congress Puts Health Care Back on the Table

Universal Health Care should be a national security imperative, in the age of bioterrorism.

Shift in Congress Puts Health Care Back on the Table - washingtonpost.com:

Health care is set to return to the national political stage in 2007, setting up partisan clashes in Congress that could end with rare vetoes from President Bush and help to define the 2008 presidential campaigns.

After years in which Iraq and national security dominated the debate -- and memories of the 1994 Clinton health plan debacle made major health-care changes politically radioactive -- the return of Democratic control in the House and Senate and the ramping up of the presidential campaigns are expected to bring health policy back into the legislative mix.