Yearly Archives 2009

Healthcare Bill passes House

The US House approved the broadest overhaul of US health care in four decades. 12 hours of bitter debate finalized with a 220-215 vote in favor of the bill, which  amounts to a 10-year, trillion-dollar plan to extend health coverage to some 36 million Americans who lack it. “Tonight, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would finally make real the promise of quality, affordable health care for the American people,” Obama said. The fate of the bill now rests in the lap of the Senate  and Obama said he was “absolutely confident” the Senate
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