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Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
nytimes.com - 12 days ago
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington on Saturday.
nytimes.com - 12 days ago
House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill
— nytimes.com — Lawmakers in the House voted 220 to 215 on Saturday night to approve a sweeping overhaul of the nation s health care system. Only one Republican voted for the bill, and 39 Democrats opposed it, including 24 members of the fiscally conservative Blue ... (more) House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill

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thinkprogress.org - 12 days ago
House Passes Historic, Bipartisan Health Reform Legislation
— thinkprogress.org — Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act by a vote of 220-215 , with one Republican — Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) — voting for the measure. Once the bill reached 216 votes, the chamber erupted ... (more) House Passes Historic, Bipartisan Health Reform Legislation

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Wonkette » top:  House Votes To Kill Your Grandmother & All Christians, 220-215

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MyDD — There are no words that can adequately express this moment. From the bottom of my heart thank you. Today we take the first step towards a more egalitarian, fairer, more sustainable America. From the New York Times: Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday, advancing legislation that the Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement. After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over ...

House Votes To Kill Your Grandmother & All Christians, 220-215
Wonkette » top — ... will have some sort of effect on the 2010 elections, the pundits are saying. Wow. Give it up to Nancy Pelosi with the whippage, you guys. She’s passed two enormous, signature bills (this and energy) with a caucus that includes two polar opposite blocs, either of which could kill a bill if it wanted to, and both of which are constantly threatening to do that exact thing. And now health care, like energy, will go to the Senate and somehow emerge as a cap gains tax cut. Hooray! [NYT] ...

Health Care Plan Passes House 220 to 215
Tennessee Guerilla Women — The health care reform bill passed and it's a bipartisan bill - one (1) Republican came aboard. Thank Gawd the Dems made all those compromises. Republican Representative Anh Cao of Louisiana voted for the bill. Thirty-nine Blue Dog Democrats voted against the ...

House health care reform passes 220-215
Greatscat! — Saturday, November 07, 2009 House health care reform passes 220-215 [image] Such as it is...the NYT reports . -Diane at 11:17 PM [image] [image] 0 Comments: Post a Comment Subscribe to Post Comments [ Atom ] Links to this post: See links to this post "> ">$BlogBacklinkURL$>" rel="nofollow"> "> ">$BlogBacklinkTitle$> @ Create a Link Support Greatscat! blog advertising is good for ...

Health Care That's Always A Scare
JustOneMinute — Pelosi and Obama get to 218 and more: Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years. Democrats said the legislation would provide overdue ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — Lots of opinions, even on weekends. WaPo: In victory for Hill Democrats, historic legislation is approved by vote of 220 to 215; Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana is the sole Republican supporter. Pre-vote "Divided Democrats" in trouble on House vote story, because Democrats are always divided. Oh, wait... Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House The Arena on passage of House version health reform, including comments by Georges Benjamin (APHA), Meizhu Lui ("Teddy, are you ...

THOUGHTS ON THE PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM
Right Wing Nut House — Interesting reactions from left and right to the passage in the House of health care reform. A bill nobody has read, that contains nobody knows what, that no one has a clue of what kind of impact it will have on the current health care system, with a cost known only to God, has been passed with no formal hearings, extraordinarily limited debate, and in a totally partisan manner (minus one Republican who doesn’t have a prayer in 2010). That’s the “reality” I would say to my friends in the reality based community. Can you argue with any of those points above? Only if you spin so ...

House Trades Freedom for Health Coverage, Senate’s Move
Outside The Beltway | OTB — The House passed a trillion dollar bill that will force Americans to buy health insurance, force even small businesses to provide health coverage, and require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.  (The last, as I have previously argued, makes it something other than “insurance.”) Lori Montgomery and Shailagh ...

The Teaparties worked!!! Victory is ours!!!
INSTAPUTZ — Sadly, no. Think about all of the town hall Putschen over the past 6 months, all of the astro-turfed protests, all of the over-the-top rhetoric -- and it's all for naught. Hope the teabaggers are enjoying their political irrelevance. ...

House Passes Healthcare Reform Bill
The Glittering Eye — The House of Representatives has passed its version of healthcare reform: WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has been a Democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 trillion over 10 years. Democrats said the legislation ...

“Sweeping” Health System Plans Pass By 5 Votes
Pirate's Cove — You have to wonder what the Founders, who shed blood to create a new country, would think about this Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement. I’m not quite sure how this is a victory for Obama, considering he had little to no hand in creating this monstrosity, other than some pep talks and spam emails. The victory belongs to Nancy Pelosi. Sort of. After a daylong clash with Republicans over what has ...

Pawlenty: Republicans must stick together for ‘American comeback’
Iowa Independent — The Republican Party isn’t big enough to “throw people overboard,” so while internal debate is healthy, the party must ultimately stick together, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty told a crowd GOP activists in Des Moines on Saturday night. ...

Health Care Victory, Stage 1: And What Would Losing Look Like?
BAGnewsNotes — That's quite a dodgy photo leading today's NYT marking the passage in the House of health care reform. The biggest slam is that Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is thoroughly obscured, far left, off a preoccupied and nervous-looking Rep. Clyburn's right shoulder. (Both Clyburn's ...

A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill At All - Part II
Newshoggers.com — Commentary By Ron Beasley A few days ago I wrote A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill At All. I remain convinced that there was never any possibility of a health care reform bill that actually reformed anything.  Obama just wants a bill - he really doesn't care what's in it.  This is not only wrong but politically stupid, more about that later.  ...

Victory Puts Health Reform One Step Closer
Comments from Left Field — In immortal words of President Obama (as contained in the fund raising email that hit my inbox a scant 1 hour and 24 minutes after the event), “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.” History indeed, and it was passed with 39 Democratic defections and only 1 Republican – Anh Cao, of Louisiana – the man who replaced William “I left hid the money in the freezer” ...

or, to put it another way: in your face, teabaggers!
skippy the bush kangaroo — we are now halfway there, as the house passed the historic hcr (short for "hillary rodham clinton health care reform") during a rare saturday late-nite session yesterday. nytimes: after a daylong clash with republicans over what has been a democratic goal for decades, lawmakers voted 220 to 215 to approve a plan that would cost $1.1 ...

The House’s Bowel Movement Bill
The Moderate Voice — When Arizona Republican John Shadegg used a seven-month-old baby as a prop during yesterday’s debate on health care, his symbolism was more apt than intended. What the House passed last night was a bowel movement of a bill diapered by competitive political posturing to cover a messy pile of mandates, entitlements, wishful savings and iffy tax changes. To call the legislative process that produced this excretion infantile insults the newborn. President Obama labeled last night’s achievement “history,” but it will take months to sort through 1990 pages of dense matter, wait for the Senate to dump its version ...

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The below excerpt is from the Concord Monitor’s story on yesterday’s Organizing for America rally, which attracted a group of counter-protesters who oppose Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health reform measure (which passed the U.S. House on Saturday night at 11:00 PM). We have contacted Democratic ...
GOP Health CARE Place Rated Awesome By CBO — Pirate's Cove
Unshockingly, it isn’t a plan that will bankrupt the country The Congressional Budget Office Wednesday night released its cost analysis of the Republican health care plan and found that it would reduce health care premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years. The ...
Jillian Bandes: Americans Care About Health Care Half As Much As They Care About The Economy — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
That's from exit polls in Virginia and New Jersey. Here's Chris Stirewalt at The Examiner:If a health plan were to pass that was even half as destructive to the job market as the one House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has...
The Public Option Fight Continues--But How Exactly Does Reform Work? — TPM Election Central
After weeks of waiting and wondering, leaders in both chambers of Congress have announced their intentions with respect to the public option. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rounding up the votes for a bill with a government insurance plan that will negotiate rates with providers. Senate Majority ...