Travis Leonardi .com

After 7 grueling hours of partisan lecturing it appears that health care reform is either dead, or will be passed with a minimal number of democrats voting and just barely passing the largest social program in the history of the United States.

If the President plans to use the existing House and Senate bills as a starting point for next week’s health care summit with Republican leaders next week, where do you think reform will end up?  According to recent zogby polls the Americans want Congress to start the health care debate over from scratch.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama submitted on Monday a $3.8 trillion federal budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2011. The president said he plans to make healthcare reform – and healthcare IT in particular – a major part of his long-term plans to put America back on track financially.

In keeping with the president’s past support of healthcare IT advancement, this year’s fiscal budget request includes $110 million to strengthen healthcare IT policy coordination and research activities.

Last February, the Administration backed more than $20.6 billion over 10 years to advance healthcare IT adoption in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)  Click here