Healthy Directions Continuing

What looked like a debacle to some a few weeks ago is shaping up as a political triumph. As support for a public option increases, opposition to health care reform in general is apparently fading. A number of prominent (though currently out of office) Republicans have suddenly gone on record in favor of a health care reform bill, in addition to prominent officeholders Gov. Terminator of CA and Mayor Bloomberg of NYC, current and former sort of GOPers respectively.

Now comes word than Congressional GOPer opposition may be collapsing. This on a day when the CBO report on the Senate Finance version has generally good news--saving the government billions--and even this modest reform looks beneficial, though mandates without a public option remain politically dangerous.

But again, there's still a long way to go, and reversals of fortune are still possible. But if this momentum can be orchestrated and intensified, it will indeed be a political triumph of major magnitude, on an issue that never should have been a partisan issue in the first place.