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Health Care Reform Perspective

13 hours ago ago from Cold Flute

First, Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year. And if you celebrate other holidays, I offer my wishes for a fine holiday wherever you may be. I remember when I was a kid my older brothers and some neighborhood kids were always wishing for more than they got. My oldest brother, for example, wished for a surfboard and got less expensive gifts instead. He grumbled but other kids in the neighborhood would have been delight with what he ...

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Obama Pledges To Help Merge Senate And House Health Care Bills

13 hours ago ago from PraiseHouston - Praise 92.1 Houston\'s Home for the Gospel Community

From the Huffington Post: While many Americans are wrapping gifts, President Barack Obama is pledging to personally wrap up health-care reform. The Senate expects to pass a health care bill on Christmas Eve, and Obama told PBS's Jim Lehrer that he would absolutely' take a hands-on role in merging it with the House version. We hope to have a whole bunch of folks over here in the West Wing, and I'll be rolling up my sleeves and ...

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60 – 39 majority passes Health Care in the Senate

15 hours ago ago from Views Across the Pond

By a large majority the Democrats ok the Health Care bill through the Senate Fantastic news coming out of Washington.  The long over due health care bill has passed in the Senate by a 60 39 majority.  Although not one Republican voted for the bill, which is not surprising considering the moves to filibuster by the GOP, the bill has at the very least cleared another major milestone on it's way to full creation. Although the bill ...

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Democrats Pass Health Care Reform Bill

14 hours ago ago from Stevex09's Blog

Cartoon by: Michael Ramirez The health care reform bill', which is the forcing of Americans to purchase a product or service has been passed by the Democrats and will most likely become law pretty soon. Obama compared this to social security, and then Medicare; notably so, as both have been bankrupted by the people in government; so as we allow the government to force us to purchase of health care coverage, they can rake in billions of ...

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Senate OK's health care bill in victory for Obama

16 hours ago ago from Columbia Citizens For Disability Advocacy

In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise talks with the House on a bill to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and rein in the insurance industry. The vote was 60-39, strictly along party lines, one day after Democrats succeeded in crushing a filibuster by Republicans eager - yet unable - to inflict a ...

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Peter Dreier: Pass the Health Care Bill

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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Text of Obama's statement on health care bill

16 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Text of Obama's statement on health care bill Text of President Barack Obama speaking Thursday about the Senate passing a health care reform bill, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. --- Obama: Good morning, everybody. In a historic vote that took place this morning, members of the Senate joined their colleagues in the House of Representatives to pass a landmark health-insurance reform package; legislation that brings us toward the end ...

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Senate Passes Health Care Bill. Now What? : NPR

8 hours ago ago from NPR

Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Senate Passes Health Care Bill. Now What? December 24, 2009 [4 min 3 sec] text size A A A December 24, 2009 The Senate finally wrapped up ...

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As Health Bill Advances, Few Changes Seen for Millions

5 hours ago ago from The New York Times

Now that the Senate has caught up with the House by passing a sweeping health care bill, lawmakers are on the verge of extending coverage to the tens of millions of Americans who have no health insurance . Health Care Conversations Share your thoughts about the health care debate. Top Discussions: The Public Option | Medicare and the Elderly | The Senate Bill Health Care Reform Recent developments on the ...

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Obama hails Senate passage of health care bill

17 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Obama hails Senate passage of health care bill WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has hailed Senate passage of an historic health care bill, saying the government is now "finally poised to deliver on the promise" of overhauling a troubled system. Speaking not long after the Senate passed the $871 billion bill by a 60-39 vote, Obama welcomed the vote as bringing America "toward the end of a nearly century-long struggle." He said ...

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