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14 hours ago ago from Capital Eye
After nearly a year of debate , months of negotiations and major lobbying blitzes , the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve passed their version of the major health insurance reform legislation. The final vote was 60-39. All 60 members of the Democratic caucus voted in favor of the plan, while no Republican senators backed the bill. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), who opposed the Democrats' legislation, was absent and did not vote. In a rare ...
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13 hours ago ago from Chester County Democratic Committee
email from Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), 12/24/09 Early this morning, the Senate made history by passing health care reform legislation with the first Christmas Eve vote in 114 years. As a state public official for a decade, I was a strong advocate for health care reform. When I ran for the Senate, I made health care my number one policy priority. In the Senate, this was the culmination of a year of work. I was a member of Senator ...
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New Health Care Bill, what should we think? BMOREUMISSEDIT New Health Care Bill, what should we think? BMOREUMISSEDIT Blog post A Social Place For Entertainment at Its Best. Reform of the US healthcare system is a priority issue for President Barack Obama but lawmakers in Congress found it difficult to agree on a bill to implement reform. @RaquelRod The new Health Care Bill .think Car Insurance for your health ..whether you ...
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7 hours ago ago from Zompist\'s E-Z rant page
Here's a great article by Jonathan Chait at The New Republic on why anyone to the left of John McCain should be pleased with the health care bill just passed by the Senate: http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/just-noise?page=0,0 He summarizes the bill, shows that Republican talking points are based on nonsense, and criticizes progressives who are prepared to derail the plan because they didn't get more. The most promising ...
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Sen. Jeff Merkley: An Imperfect Stride Towards Justice
12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Dear Friends, At 7 am this morning, a short time ago, I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It passed. If you are like me, it is hard to respond with uninhibited celebration. It is hard to celebrate when you are mourning. I am mourning the loss of the national public option. I am mourning the infringement on women's constitutional right to choose. And there is much more about which I am frustrated. The bill does ...
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2 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 ...
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5 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 ...
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15 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation's health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama . Harry Hamburg/Associated Press Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Senator Ted Kennedy, with Senators Christopher Dodd and Harry Reid on Thursday on Capitol Hill. Health Care ...
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