Democrats Try to Hold Together as Health Care Debate Begins in Senate - FOXNews.com: "WASHINGTON -- With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on health care overhaul, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the bill to advance is fracturing already.
Some Democratic senators say they'll jump ship from the bill without tighter restrictions on abortion coverage. Others say they'll go unless a government plan to compete with private insurance companies gets tossed overboard. Such concessions would enrage liberals, the heart and soul of the party.
There's no clear course for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to steer legislation through Congress to President Barack Obama. You can't make history unless you reach 60 votes out of 100 senators, and don't count on Republicans helping him.
But Reid is determined to avoid being remembered as another Democrat who tried and failed to make health care access for the middle class a part of America's social safety net.
'Generation after generation has called on us to fix this broken system,' he said at a recent Capitol Hill rally. 'We're now closer than ever to getting it done.'"
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