Curve Ball Thrown at Health Care Reform as Brown Celebrates Win in Senate Race

By: Ansley Brown

Posted: 2/2/10

Liberal Massachusetts has its first Republican senator in nearly 30 years.

Scott Brown wins the seat of late Edward Kennedy and this historical win could be the beginning of a historical loss for the Obama Camp, which is now strategizing on how to get the much debated health care bill passed.

Tyka Edness, a senior journalism major, who has been closely following the health care debate and senatorial race believes that despite the Republican win, the party still lacks important tactics needed to see a prosperous America.

"The Republican party has no vigilance for a larger interest. Changing health care so it can be affordable to the masses is not what the ruling class apparently wants."

The Republican win cost Democrats their 60 vote senate majority, which they have profoundly depended on to get their universal health care bill passed in the senate.

Obama and his team must now come up with a way to pass the vote with at least one Republican vote. A Republican victory in Massachusetts gives the GOP 41 senators.

Republicans now have the power to stop democrat endorsed bills including the health care reform bill would have the power to literally stop every piece of legislation they didn't like, including the health care reform legislation.

William Watkins, a senior, marketing and finance major, does not see a successful future for health care after learning about Brown's win.

"I feel that a Republican being elected into senate will make it even tougher for the bill to be passed in time for those who need in immediately."

House representatives said they would not pass the Senate-approved bill as it is now because of issues they have with the bill from both the Republican and Democratic parties. In an exclusive live interview with MSNBC, House Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Cal) stated that she was fearful that the health care reform bill will not be passed. Although largely due to Brown's win, Woolsey also stated that all Democrats are not 100 percent behind the bill. "I don't think that very many of the Democrats in the house would vote for the senate bill straight up."

President Obama must weigh in on his new foreseen gloomy future with health care reform.