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22 hours ago ago from Senior Citizens Help
By Rick Newman Rick Newman Thu Dec 24, 7:47 am ET It's not official yet but it's getting awfully close. With the Senate finally passing an $871 billion healthcare reform bill, there's just one major step left before the most sweeping healthcare legislation in at least 45 years becomes law. Senate negotiators will next meet with their counterparts in the House which passed its own $894 billion bill in November to work out the differences and ...
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17 hours ago ago from Comet's Corner
A Democrat's view from the House: Senate bill isn't health reform By Louise M. Slaughter , Special to CNN December 23, 2009 Editor's note : Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, a Democrat, represents the 28th Congressional District of New York. Slaughter is the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee and the only microbiologist in Congress. Washington (CNN) -- The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that ...
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12 hours ago ago from Door County Style
In the rush to pass the so-called healthcare reform bill, U.S. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) stomped his feet and held his breath until he extracted his presents from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. One such exempts the state of Nebraska from paying the $45 million increase in Medicaid imbursement costs. Nelson was the 60th Democrat to get his stocking stuffed. Terri McCormick Smart parents know not to give in to spoiled ...
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21 hours ago ago from Politics | AlterNet
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Related contentDeceit, Corruption, Accounting Fraud and the PPACA of 2009
17 hours ago ago from TAKEbackMEDICINE.org
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2009 passed the Senate this morning, before dawn, on a strictly partisan vote. For the first time in history a major piece of legislation was approved without bipartisan support, in the dead of night and against the observed will of the American people. Rasmussen polling puts the opposition at 55% with support at 41%. CNN polling agrees reproting a 56% vs 42% plurality in ...
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For Their Next Trick . . .
11 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Look for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to try to circumvent the traditional conference committee process by which the different versions of health care reform passed by each house will be reconciled. If so, it will be the latest example of violating principles of transparency and accountability in the single-minded pursuit of legislative victory. Conferences involving members from both houses are messy ...
Related contentPeter Dreier: Pass the Health Care Bill
12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
There are many lessons to learn from the health care war that has raged over the past year. We'll get to some of them below. But here's the bottom line: Pass the bill, then improve it. The health care bill that will emerge from the House-Senate conference committee won't be what most progressives had hoped for, but it is a major, historic turning point in American social reform legislation, comparable to the Social Security Act, the ...
Related contentSenate OK's health care bill in victory for Obama
20 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Senate OK's health care bill in victory for Obama WASHINGTON (AP) -- Months ago, a delegation of Republican senators went to the White House with a request for President Barack Obama to take a more gradual approach to health care. He demurred, according to one official familiar with the meeting, saying that's not what he promised when he ran for the White House. Now, with multiple trade-offs made, Obama and his Democratic allies stand one ...
Related contentDavid Sirota: 60+ House Democrats Say "Any" Health Bill With No Public Option Is "Unacceptable"
18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
For those caught up in the obsequiously triumphalist bullshit coming from the DC elite - you know the crap about the Senate allegedly passing the most important piece of progressive legislation in American history today (an analysis I completely reject ) - it's important for us all to remember that the health care battle isn't over - and specifically, the battle over the public option isn't over. Now, I know you've been told over and over ...
Related contentBBC News - President Obama hails Senate health bill support
16 hours ago ago from BBC
Obama welcomes passing of healthcare bill US President Barack Obama has welcomed the passage of his healthcare bill through the Senate, saying it paves the way for reform. The bill, which passed with 60 to 39 votes, aims to cover 31 million uninsured Americans. This will be the most important piece of social legislation since Social Security passed in the 1930s, he said. It must still be reconciled with similar legislation passed by ...
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