Pre-speech, proving to be a fully-loaded member of the Obamacare Express team:

But now he’s joined the team; here he is this morning, the deadline-setter:

Vice President Joe Biden asserted Thursday that a health care bill will be done by Thanksgiving because President Barack Obama has “re-centered debate” and there’s bipartisan consensus for change despite the fight over a government-run option.
“I think the most important thing he did, he also debunked a lot of the myths out there, the idea of death panels, that we were going to insure undocumented aliens,” said Biden, touring the morning network news shows a day after Obama delivered what he hopes was a game-changing appeal to a joint session of Congress.
Obama went to Capitol Hill Wednesday night determined to sweep away a summer of gridlock on his top domestic priority, and his vice president argued that he’d accomplished just that in the nationally broadcast, prime-time address.
“I believe we will have a bill,” Biden said. “I’ve been in the Congress for a very long time, eight presidents. I believe we will have a bill before Thanksgiving.”