3 hours ago by MCT Direct

WASHINGTON (MCT) — The House of Representatives Saturday passed, by a 220-215 vote, historic health-care overhaul legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run health insurance plan to help them do so. If passed by the Senate, the bill ...

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3 hours ago by admin

Last night, the House of Representatives passed the health care bill with a vote of 220-215. Only one Republican voted for the Democratic bill, Joseph Cao from New Orleans, and nearly 40 Democrats voted against it. For a complete list of names of Democrats who voted against it, click here for the Ne ...

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3 hours ago by Pastor Bob Cornwall

We are the point of historic change in the way health care is provided in this country. The House last night passed by a small margin a health care bill that will extend health care to millions and prevent companies from cherry picking healthy people and leave the rest with few options. What has pas ...

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3 hours ago by Corn Snail

The House’s healthcare reform bill passed yesterday, 220-215. It still needs to be passed by the Senate, but considering nothing like this has passed through the House in 40 years, it’s reason to be excited. Among other things, the version of the healthcare reform bill that passed [...]

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4 hours ago by Daniel

I don’t think there was anything hypocritical about Congressman Joseph Cao’s vote for first the Stupak Amendment and then also the actual healthcare reform bill. I said it before and I’ll say it again, to get in the majority the scope of what can be allowed for party members who control districts an ...

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5 hours ago by Cranky George

One of the better reads about the Health Care Reform Bill that was just passed by the House of Representatives is that from Betsy McCaughey, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York under George Pataki (Click to See Full Story).In the referenced article that she wrote for the Wall Street Journal, ...

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5 hours ago by David Lightman

And now a word from Senate Republicans... Now that the House of Representatives has passed its version of health care change, the measure heads to the Senate, where it faces a bumpy path. Here's what Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had to say today about the bill: "The government-run plan ...

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6 hours ago by the joshua blog

President Obama appeared in the Rose Garden to offer this statement thanking lawmakers for taking a "courageous vote," also saying it was time for the Senate to "take the baton" on health care reform. From MSNBC: Obama: 'Now it falls on the United States Senate'

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6 hours ago by purecommonsense

So, a health care bill barely squeaked by in the house with a public option provision intact. The public option is a controversial and pivotal point in this debate which is opposed by many Democrats and supported by almost no Republicans. The public option is a dangerous step toward a crippled insur ...

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6 hours ago by admin

On November 7th at around 11pm, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a sweeping health care reform bill by a vote of 220 to 215. The nearly $1.1 trillion bill would extend coverage to an additional 36 million Americans that are currently without insurance coverage and also create a govern ...

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