It is time that we broke the chains, which the health insurance companies have on our political process. It’s time that we have a government that we can call our own. And it’s time that Congress respond to the needs of the American people first, and recognize that health care is a basic right in a democratic society.

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• Health Care Bill Is Already “Bi-Partisan,” writes Hendrick Herrtzberg in The New Yorker:

…the Democrats’ bill more closely resembles Richard Nixon’s health-care proposal—the one that Ted Kennedy went to his grave regretting he hadn’t embraced—than it does Bill Clinton’s, to say nothing of Harry Truman’s. Nor are all its Republican features archeological. “Our bill contains over a hundred and forty-seven distinct Republican amendments,” Senator Tom Harkin, of Iowa, reminded his summit colleagues. The health-care reform bill—which, despite everything, is still alive—is an ambitious piece of legislation, however modest it may be by the measure of the rest of the developed world. Ideologically and substantively, it is centrist. It has Republicans, and Republicanism, in its family tree. For better or for worse, it’s already bipartisan.