House passes health care reform

Calendar March 21, 2010 | Posted by Adam

After a long debate (and I’m not just talking about today’s crazy floor proceedings given how long this has gone on!), the House of Representatives has passed both the Senate’s health care reform bill, which goes immediately to President Obama to be signed into law, and a reconciliation bill full of fixes that the House wanted. You can read a good summary of the details here. The reconciliation bill would also drastically reform student loan programs by completely removing private lender middlemen from the process. Special kudos go to Speaker Pelosi for getting her caucus together, though the White House also had to promise an executive order to get pro-life Dems in line.

The Senate will take up the reconciliation bill on Tuesday and hopefully pass it this week. If that happens, it will be a historic victory for President Obama and Democrats, and, well, all Americans who desperately needed a change from the status quo of our current health care system.

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8 Comments

  1. Xanthippas says:
    03/21/2010 at 10:44 PM

    I honestly had started to fear that it wouldn’t happen. I feel privileged to be able to watch history happen.

  2. Nat-Wu says:
    03/22/2010 at 12:13 AM

    It’s not over, but it’s close. And when it’s done, there will be dancing in the streets!

  3. Adam says:
    03/22/2010 at 6:50 AM

    Well regardless of whether the Senate passes the reconciliation bill, the House passes the Senate bill so that will be signed into law. So the main portion of health care reform has already been achieved tonight. Now we just need to make it better!

  4. Nat-Wu says:
    03/22/2010 at 6:39 PM

    We should make it better by eliminating Republicans! Yay!

  5. Adam says:
    03/22/2010 at 7:30 PM

    Hear hear!

  7. Marie says:
    03/31/2010 at 6:18 PM

    I don’t know, maybe it’s just me but I have to ask… Is anybody else getting tired of hearing about healthcare? It seems like that is the only thing on the news lately. Yes, I know it is important but gosh how many times do you have to hear the same stuff? Tell us something new or don’t talk about it.

  8. http://www.deepeshmd.com/musings/vaastu-shastra-science-of-building-house says:
    05/07/2010 at 6:18 AM

    The Senate will take up the reconciliation bill on Tuesday and hopefully pass it this week. Then what if not?