November 23rd, 2009

Reports NPR:

Senate Democrats may have scored a procedural victory Saturday night, but the real battle is set to begin after Thanksgiving, when debate over health care legislation will begin.

Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes to get a bill to the president’s desk by the end of the year. But getting 60 votes to support the bill in its current form is by no means guaranteed.

Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln says she won’t back a bill that includes money for a government-run public health care plan. The same goes for other conservative Democrats, like Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu and Nebraska’s Ben Nelson.

Liberal senators say just the opposite.

To help bridge that divide, President Obama has recruited Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader from South Dakota and one-time nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle spoke to Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz.

Check out the interview at NPR.