Sunday, March 7, 2010

Brown's Election May End Up Being a Positive for Health-Care Reform


By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Remember how Republican Scott P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal blow to health-care reform?

"Probably back to the drawing board," Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) declared the next day. "Might be dead," Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) surmised. "We're back to where we were maybe even years ago," concluded Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.).