Obama Achieves Health Law Success

This is an achievement that eluded the past - Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage


Congress Clears Historic Health Care Bill - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a large gavel as she emerges from a Democratic Caucus meeting with from left, Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., John Lewis, D-Ga., and at right is Rep. Jim Clyburn, on Sunday, March 21, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington  -  Rep. Patrick Kennedy calls the bill a testimonial to his late father Sen. Edward Kennedy. He says his late father would have been very proud to see the culimination of his dream of virtual universal health care for the country.