Health Care Plan Passes House 220-215
From The NY 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 10 years and that Democrats said would provide relief to Americans struggling to buy or hold on to health insurance. [...]
Democrats were forced to make major concessions on insurance coverage for abortions to attract the final votes to secure passage, a wrenching compromise for the numerous abortion-rights advocates in their ranks. They hope to make changes to that amendment during negotiations with the Senate, which will now become the main battleground in the health care fight as Democrats there ready their own bill for what is likely to be extensive floor debate. [...]
Only one Republican, Representative Anh Cao of Louisiana, voted for the bill, and 39 Democrats opposed it. The House also defeated the Republicans’ more modest plan, whose authors said it was a more common-sense and fiscally responsible approach.
MORE: Here are the final vote results.
UPDATE: Cao’s vote in particular is driving the wingnuts insane. And that rancid sack o’ tweets RightBloggerPat is keeping ‘em coming...
My Uncle served in Vietnam all he could stab this Country in the back. @samuel @levihenry @kerrence @tonyyeung @paparatti @Yeggo @frautoasty
Some of us, have not forgotten what happened on Dec 7, 1941 either! @samuel @levihenry @kerrence @tonyyeung @paparatti @Yeggo @frautoasty
@tonyyeung That’s because LIBERALS like YOU LIED about the damn war, ya sland-eyed ASSHOLE
I’m really starting to distrust ANYONE of Eastern Descent. 1st it was John Yu, then it was Obama’s guy saying we should repay China.
I’m head fucking serious… Al-Qaeda is not our Worst Enemy. The East is man. China, Japan, Vietnam, all of ‘em. #tcot #hcr #killbill #VTO
Remember ‘41 people, this was their revenge on us. Ceo is a fucking Commie Plant in the G.O.P. #tcot #hcr #killbill #VTO
@FoxieNews Ya think? That rat bastard sold the G.O.P. up the river! and After all the Americans that went to ‘Nam and Died. :-/ Pissed.
@samuel They had it coming after what they did to us at Pearl Harbor!!!!
@TexasRV Not to mention that Yellow man Cao that sold us up the damned river.
Whack Job my ass…. that bastard slant-eyed son of a bitch sold the G.O.P. up the fucking river and he knows it!
Okay. I will admit it… I fucked up on Japan… They weren’t commies. But they did attack America.
Awww, that’s sweet. He admitted he was wrong about Japan. How terribly honorable of him. Now if we can get him to admit that the correct phrase is “sold down the river,” all is forgiven.
Posted by Kevin K. on 11/07/09 at 11:46 PM • Permalink
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