Will healthcare legislation be on Obama's desk by year's end?

[0:00] ..." This is rod Fritz WBZ Newsradio 1030 talking with. ABC news political analyst Steve Roberts Steve what do you make of the resignation of that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and what does the future."...

[0:34] ..." her life and if you want to model. Q should look to Richard Nixon of all people after he lost the governorship of California in 1962 -- spent six years traveling the country making friends raising"...

[3:13] ..." come from. Who do you tax. You tax the rich he attacks health benefit plans do you find other sources of revenue. Do you squeeze payments to doctors and hospitals. Every single proposal to raise money"...

[3:45] ..." That's Steve Roberts ABC news political analyst I'm rod Fritz WBZ Newsradio 1030."...

[0:00]" This is rod Fritz WBZ Newsradio 1030 talking with. ABC news political analyst Steve Roberts Steve what do you make of the resignation of that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and what does the future."

[0:14]" Old four. -- look I I'd I'd never it never made sense to me that the way you say I'm qualified for higher offices to quit the office you have it just doesn't make sense. And I think there's been a lot of criticism over a lot of are justified but. It does free Iraq. For the next stage of her life and if you want to model. Q should look to Richard Nixon of all people after he lost the governorship of California in 1962 -- spent six years traveling the country making friends raising money. Forging connections and then. 1968. He ran and won for president -- I think they're panels can be present in this country the answers no I do not. But if there is a model out there that she wants to follow to rebuild her political career. Nixon would not be a bad -- to follow. Well Steve it looks like -- would be presidents. Request to have congress. Finish up something on health care before they go home on August recess isn't gonna work is -- gonna happen this year. That's still up in the air I think the guts to -- favorite only because in the end. A lot of Democrats who want to support their president. If he wins they win if he loses their power diminishes but. There's a basic disconnect here just because this a democratic majority in the congress does not mean there's a liberal majority in the congress there were eighty members of the house. Elected in the last two elections many of them from marginal districts many of them from districts 12. Occupied by Republicans. And the speaker of the house and the democratic leadership has got to understand. That does the very reason why they're in the majority is because there their caucus includes -- a lot of moderates and if you force these people to vote for big government programs particularly including big tax increases. Boy you could write the ads against these young Democrats right now how. Old tax and spend line will be revived -- been successful in the past -- could work in the future. The Democrats have to be very careful. Not to. Endangered their own members by forcing them to vote for program. That's too liberal for the district's Steve do we know what to health care reform bills -- look like when it comes out of congress. Now I think we have the basic outline that any bill if it does pass we'll include. Expansion of coverage to most if not all of the 46 million or so who don't have care. That's the heart of the bill. And then secondly there will be attempts to. Two as the president keeps saying bend the cost curve perhaps by. A commission with more teeth to set Medicare rules. But a lot of issues are still unsettled and number one how do you pay for no matter how much you talk about saving money in reducing costs. Everybody understands at least in the beginning this is gonna cost a great deal of money may be as much as a trillion dollars weird does it come from. Who do you tax. You tax the rich he attacks health benefit plans do you find other sources of revenue. Do you squeeze payments to doctors and hospitals. Every single proposal to raise money is connect. Is going to really outraged some stakeholders in this and that's the problem there is no easy answer to raise in this money. And everybody who has a stake in this is -- state tax somebody else squeeze somebody else and that problem has not yet been solved by the Democrats."

[3:45]" That's Steve Roberts ABC news political analyst I'm rod Fritz WBZ Newsradio 1030."