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One year after President Obama began this nationwide debate on health care, we are finally getting close to final vote on this bill (which has already passed both chambers of Congress and only needs to be merged into one final bill...no easy task, of course):

"I believe the United States Congress owes the American people a final vote on health care reform," Mr. Obama said during a 20-minute speech in the East Room of the White House. He said there was no point in starting over, as Republicans are demanding, and called on nervous Democrats to stick with him, declaring there was no reason "for those of us who were sent here to lead to just walk away."

"Reform has already passed the House with a majority. It has already passed the Senate with a super-majority of 60 votes," Mr. Obama said. "And now it deserves the same kind of up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the Children's Health Insurance Program, that was used for Cobra health coverage for the unemployed and, by the way, for both Bush tax cuts -- all of which had to pass Congress with nothing more than a simple majority."

Let's see if he can rustle up the necessary support within his own party to get this (flawed) health-care bill over the finish line.

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