The health care bill.

摘要

On Christmas Eve, the Senate approved health care legislation, HR 3590, by a strict party-line vote of 60 to 39; just enough votes to prevent further debate or filibuster. The bill now heads for reconciliation with the House version with the President hopeful that he will have something to sign before the State of the Union message in January.The Editors were constrained in their comments on health care1 by their duty to remain true to their mission of promoting the dissemination of the scientific literature on orthopaedic arthroscopic surgery. As we have recently witnessed with the climate science literature scandal, scientific journals and politics should not be mixed and I applaud the Editors for their restraint.