House Passes Health Care Reform Bill »
Posted By TimALoftis 3 months ago in Political NewsWashington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215.
Earlier, the House passed an amendment to pending health care legislation that prohibits federal funds for abortion services in the public option and in the insurance "exchange" the bill would create.
The vote passed 240-194.
A second amendment considered by the House, introduced by Minority Leader John Boehner, which would have substituted several sections of the health care bill dealing with insurance, did not pass. Legislators voted against the amendment 258-176.
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happydaze3 months ago
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This passes it will be bye bye NeoCons. Which is probably exactly what they fear. They had 8 years to do it on their own. Too bad. So sad...
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Radiofreeeuropa3 months ago
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The House is more or less a given, we have to see just how much more butchery is performed by the Senate which has more of it's denizens working directly for insurance and pharma. I hope Obama gets the bill he asked for. But more is being spent to suppress reform than it would cost to insure all uninsured Americans. What I do believe is what representative Alan Grayson said. "If you knew 7-8 hundred Americans a day were going to be killed by terrorists, wouldn't you do something about it?"
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The Harvard Journal Of Medicine has determined 7-8 hundred people a day die because they had no health insurance.
It is high time to do something about it!
Ever since Theodore Roosevelt the need has been recognized and the usual suspects said wait don't rush wait...a century has been quite long enough, delay costs lives.
This will not be a clean bill, nor a perfect one, yes we could have done much better, and maybe we will sometime in the future. But this is a step in the right direction and the bottom line is American lives will be spared as a result. -
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TimALoftis3 months ago
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The Health Care Reform Bill received one Republican vote - Rep. Anh 'Joseph' Cao of Louisiana (district near New Orleans)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/08/joseph-ca...
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gamahuche3 months ago
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"The Harvard Journal Of Medicine has determined 7-8 hundred people a day die because they had no health insurance."
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That is an almost unbelievable figure from an entirely believable source.
What really puzzles me is that the Insurance Company lobbying could be taken seriously by people who are NOT engaged in gouging sick people for their last dime - i.e. the general public, healthy or not. -
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truthiness3 months ago
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This evening, at 11:15 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to pass their health insurance reform bill. Despite countless attempts over nearly a century, no chamber of Congress has ever before passed comprehensive health reform. This is history.
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But you and millions of your fellow Organizing for America supporters didn't just witness history tonight -- you helped make it. Each "yes" vote was a brave stand, backed up by countless hours of knocking on doors, outreach in town halls and town squares, millions of signatures, and hundreds of thousands of calls. You stood up. You spoke up. And you were heard.
So this is a night to celebrate -- but not to rest. Those who voted for reform deserve our thanks, and the next phase of this fight has already begun.
The final Senate bill hasn't even been released yet, but the insurance companies are already pressing hard for a filibuster to bury it. OFA has built a massive neighborhood-by-neighborhood operation to bring people's voices to Congress, and tonight we saw the results. But the coming days will put our efforts to the ultimate test. Winning will require each of us to give everything we can, starting right now.
Please donate $5 or whatever you can afford so we can finish this fight.
Tonight's vote brought every American closer to the secure, affordable care we need. But it was also a watershed moment in how change is made.
Even after last year's election, many insider lobbyists and partisan operatives really thought that the old formula of scare tactics, D.C. back-scratching and special-interest money would still be enough to block any idea they didn't like. Now, they're desperate. Because, tonight, you made it crystal clear: the old rules are changing -- and the people will not be ignored.
In the final phases of last year's election, I often reminded folks, "Don't think for a minute that power concedes without a fight," and it's especially true today. But that's okay -- we're not afraid of a fight. And as you continue to prove, when all of us work together, we have what it takes to win.
Please donate to OFA's campaign to win this fight and ensure that real health reform reaches my desk by the end of this year:
https://donate.barackobama.com/History
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jordan113 months ago
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/08/us/p...
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This shows 'democrats' who voted against, and also has a graph of how many uninsured are in their districts. -
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Ocalian3 months ago
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I know a lot of The House of Representatives seats will be replaced by the voters. We don't need this type of reform for health care. They just passed it without even knowing all aspects of the bill. What happened to reading the fine print before you sign. What idiots we have in the house!
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dgoodii3 months ago
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So much for taking an oath and having the fortitude to stand up to those elected who desire to strip the people of their rights. The self anointed rules of America, the kingdom of the US Government have all voted to end constitutional rule. Opting for a central controlling government with limitless authority to tax and dictate all parts of their serfs lives.
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So be it, let those whom wish to destroy it make themselves know to all. They took an oath to defend it from enemies both foreign and domestic, refusing to govern within the limitations of the constitution is an attack on it.
So the stage is being set for all to choose whether they are free and in power or they wish to have no freedoms but those allowed by their master government, as most of the world exist.
May the States stand united against an unconstitutional, authoritative and all controlling central government. Those who fail to learn from history will try to repeat it.-
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Radiofreeeuropa3 months ago
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Well hmmm....I don't think the President, or any member of congress is involved in any legitimate disputes about their being elected. So "self anointed" "kingdom" are rather a bit hyperbolic.
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I can think of nothing frankly that the words "provide for the general welfare" suits than health care. So there is sound constitutional basis for a public health care program. which frankly this is not. It merely provides some patchwork regulation and some recourse for for people the insurance industry doesn't want to insure anyway.
The larger question is constitutionally do corporations have a right to interfere in government?
The only basis for allowing it is the "mistake" of a court clerk (who himself was a railroad baron) of writing in the head notes of the "Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad" case that corporations had 14th amendment rights. (In the actual document, nothing could be further from the truth).
"Corporate personhood" is the notion that a corporation has the rights of a person under the constitution.
Prior to the founding of this nation, with the exception of a brief period in Greece, the history of the previous 7000 years of what we called "civilization" was that one of three types of rulers were the sole holders of rights. Society was ruled by either warlord kings; theocratic popes, mullahs or variations thereof; or the very rich. And they ruled both by virtue of their personal wealth, power, or knowledge of a god's will, and because they represented a ruling institution (the kingdom, church, or either land or a corporation).
Largely through the power of their institutions, they were the sole holders of "rights," and all the non-institutional humans -- the serfs, common people, and even the very tiny precursor of the middle class, the mercantilists and guildsmen -- had only "privileges," which could be revoked more-or-less at will by the holders of the rights.
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stockmarketpro23 months ago
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We have two Americas. Ever since the Civil War.
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Even today, we have assh*le Republicans who lie to us at almost every turn (i.e., Republicans spin all kind of lies "for the good of the country").
And then we have the Democrats who try to include everyone when not everyone wants to be included. Then they get blamed for being Socialists.
The United States is one f*cked up country. Especially Republicans.
So f*ck 'em. The Republicans lost. Deal with it.
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