If this Republican Congress
fails to pass a good
healthcare bill, we should prepare for our next opportunity to
reform health care — if such an opportunity ever arises.
Mogadishu, Rwanda, Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), the Whitewater land scandal, a
failed stimulus
bill, a
failed healthcare reform act all led to the Republican congressional gains in 1994 that made Clinton himself the issue of the midterm elections.