Analyst: Post-Kennedy health care bill may be more sweeping

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Ironically, his death might bring about a change of tactics that would help reach the goal he was unable to achieve in life, one veteran political analyst says.

“Kennedy’s departure may in fact increase the chances that we get a more sweeping health care bill,” American Enterprise Institute analyst Norman Ornstein recently told CNN.

As Congress prepares to reconvene and resume the fight over President Obama’s top domestic priority, Democratic leaders are expressing concern over the consequences of Kennedy’s passing.

Kennedy was the chairman of the critical Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and provided a potential 60th Democratic vote, which would be needed to break a Republican Senate filibuster. Video Watch CNN’s Jessica Yellin report on Kennedy, consensus and the health care issue »