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Health Care Reform Bill Passes with Controversial Amendment

By: WordSlinger

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives voted to pass the health insurance reform bill around 11:15 Saturday evening. Despite numerous attempts for over 60 years, no chamber of Congress has ever passed comprehensive health reform. History was in the making. Lawmakers in the House chamber voted 220 to 215 to pass this bill. Only one ...

19 days ago

Urgent: House vote soon

By: anonymous1031

Amra -- The House's first full vote on health reform legislation may come as early as this week. It'll be the first time in more than 60 years that the full body votes on comprehensive reform, and we expect it to be very close. But with just a few days before the vote, the insurance industry and their allies are putting extraordinary ...

24 days ago

Obama says health vote 'historic'

By: BiodunIginla

Sunday, November 8, 2009 by Biodun Iginla, BBC News

19 days ago

Two CBO directors blast Obamacare

By: RossErdmann

   The CBO issued a report late on Thursday that unbdercuts conservative fears that the Public Option amounts to a takeover of health care by the government. The reason is because only six million Americans would join the plan created by the almost two thousand page behemoth. The reason being that coverage under the plan would cost ...

23 days ago