Health care reform saddles future generations with debt

The victory came ugly, and it was narrow. But it was also sweet. It was historic and, politically, it was big. The question is: Will the passage of health care reform also prove a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats — one that will devastate the winners in the 2010 elections? Republicans think so, citing polls showing health care reform to be deeply unpopular. As former speaker Newt Gingrich, declared in an e-mail blast Wednesday — titled "This Will Not Stand" — "in every recent poll, the vast majority of Americans opposed this monstrosity." That was largely true up to the moment that the H...