I may be the only one here who actually believes that the healthcare bill will have an easier time passing the Senate than the House. The reason is that we can get pass this in the Senate with just 50 votes if worst comes to worst in October. I think 50 votes is doable in the Senate, because most of the Democratic Senators do not have to face the voters in 2010. With the House, its far different. Yes, we only need 218 votes, but there are a ton of blue dogs who are ready to block any bill in the House. If we had elected five or ten more progressive members to the House in 2008, it may have been the difference between this bill passing and failing.
Barack Obama should have campaigned heavily for Democrats in House districts in 2008, since he had the election locked up after the financial crisis in September. If he had campaigned for Democratic candidates in close House races in California, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Washington who all lost by small margins, they likely would have won and given us a few more votes for healthcare reform.
However, it is too late now and we must make do with what we have. The problem we are having is that many members we thought we had like Dina Titus and even Jared Polis are against the bill(http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/notepad/2009/07/first-crack-in-blue-dog-armor.html). Passing this is a must unless we want to do irreversal damage to the liberal movement. Obama promised us this and he CANNOT break this promise. This promise has been broken way too many times and if Congress fails us on this, it will BREAK Obama and the Democratic majority.