Abortion agreement puts Dems over 216 vote threshold to pass overhaul
WASHINGTON - Triumph in their grasp, President Barack Obama and House Democrats demonstrated command of the votes needed to pass landmark health care legislation Sunday night, a climactic chapter in a century-long quest for near universal coverage.
The House argued its way through a thicket of Republican objections toward a late-evening vote on the bill to extend coverage to 32 million Americans who lack it, ban insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions and cut deficits by an estimated $138 billion over a decade.
"Today is the day that is going to rank with the day we passed the civil rights bill in 1964," said Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, a member of Congress since 1955. "Today we're doing something that ranks with what we did with Social Security or Medicare. This is a day of which we can all be proud if we vote for that legislation."
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23 comments:
Voting on the Senate health insurance reform bill right now...God willing, it will pass. We can finally begin to wriggle from beneath the oppressive thumb of amoral insurance companies.
Yeah right get ready to get screwed why do the RICH FREAKIN POLITICIANS pass bills because it NEVER effects them....
Put Poor Dumb people in the Congress, they would do better than rich dumbasses!
A bunch of disgusting Whores!
Yes, ranks with what they did with social security and medicare..my my that in it's self should show this is the stupidest decision made in decades.
Faith in the government is at an all time low among those with half a brain. Of course the ones who prefer to receive handouts are over joyed.
I have the same knot in my gut now as I did the day Obama won the election. America is no longer America the place where people come to EARN a good life, it is now a place to benefit from contributing nothing to society.
Why bother to work hard, have morals, and strive to make the country a better place? The government will just continue to undermind the hard working Americans to cater to the whiners that cry that everything is unjust, unfair, and biased.
Not really, it will be 4 to 8 years for Health Care to kick in --BUT - the taxation will begin immediately, supposely to gather money to pay for plan once it starts going into effect from 2013 to 2018. I hope all of you who wanted this so desperately are not expecting to wake up tomorrow morning covered by health care and I certainly hope you realize the additional taxes you will have to pay before you are covered.
And get firmly under the thumb of oppressive government.
Thisis GGGrrreeeaaattt.
Yeaaaah! Finally.
FACE
Be careful what you wish for there. It looks like a bunch of insurance companies may stop insuring "health" altogether
10:38 - go ahead and thank the government for taking control of yet another sector of our lives that they aren't qualified to run. How's the kool aid taste?
Amen to that 10:38! I am sick of republican nay sayers shooting down every measure of change proposed by the current administration. It's about time.
The beginning of the END!
But now we are under the thumb of an IRS agent.
The people who were for this bill will find out soon enough. Average life span will be set back 20 years or more. Civil unreast and crime will dominate the country. Be prepared !
He is right , they have screwed-up social security , medicare and to say the least civil rights , the whites in this country have no civil rights. At least , not at the present time , but that is going to change real fast.
Hey 10:38. I'd like to keep my money. You go ahead though and give up your paycheck to this great administration you fool.
We could have solved the problems in other ways.
In Congress since 1955, there is the problem right there.
10:38
You are a fool. Not yopu are under the enormous oppressive thumb of government control administered by the IRS.
Your just stuck on stupid!
Lock and load !
Happy dependence day! The government will take care of our every need!
"So this is how Liberty ends, to thunderous applause." - Padme Amidala, Star Wars Episode III
Say that to your self 10:38 P.M. when you lose your job, and are FORCED to buy care when you Can't afford it... And then you get jailed or fined by IRS becasue you didn't purchase care because you couldn't afford it... Not to mention its UN-CONSTITUTIONAL to FORCE someone who can't afford or who doesn't want it to HAVE to buy it...
For all of the congressman/legislators who voted yes for healthcare -- every one of them lost my vote forever !
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