Breaking News: House Passes Health Care Reform
At 11:09pm Eastern Time, the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care reform legislation with HB3962. The vote was 220- 215 , with 39 Democrats voting against Health Care reform. One republican voted for the bill. 176 Repubilcans opposed the bill.
The bill, over 2000 pages, includes a Public Option. An amendment passed tonight that banned Abortion coverage being included with any Public Option or private plan where federal subsidies are involved. Rep. Jan Schakowski argued vehemently for abortion funding , but was unsuccessful in getting that amendment killed.
President Obama mentioned today that 14,000 people are losing their health insurance every day. He did not mention that the reason that they are losing insurance is because the economy in contracting, and people are losing their employer based health care. Perhaps it would be wiser to cut taxes and stimilulate Job growth instead of adding taxing those that still have jobs. The bill will include appx. $400 billion in new taxes on the health care industry over the next 10 years. Those taxes start January 1, 2010. (in 54 days)
The bill, over 2000 pages, includes a Public Option. An amendment passed tonight that banned Abortion coverage being included with any Public Option or private plan where federal subsidies are involved. Rep. Jan Schakowski argued vehemently for abortion funding , but was unsuccessful in getting that amendment killed.
President Obama mentioned today that 14,000 people are losing their health insurance every day. He did not mention that the reason that they are losing insurance is because the economy in contracting, and people are losing their employer based health care. Perhaps it would be wiser to cut taxes and stimilulate Job growth instead of adding taxing those that still have jobs. The bill will include appx. $400 billion in new taxes on the health care industry over the next 10 years. Those taxes start January 1, 2010. (in 54 days)
Posted by HealthInsure.com at 11/7/2009 11:09 PM 
Categories: healthcare reform
Tags: Obama Health Care Reform passes. HB3962
Categories: healthcare reform
Tags: Obama Health Care Reform passes. HB3962
This will go down as the most disastrous day in American History....they day that Socialism took presidence over Capitolism!
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While I agree with your staement it's not quite complete - I have a job and at present have insurance but my premium has been raised fromm $1100.00 to $1400.00 (rounded these figures down not up) This for me, my husband and daughter - my husband and I both have preexisting conditions but nothing serious (if it was serious can you imagine what the premium would be??) I can't contimue this and will soon be one that is either uninsured or underinsured - there has to be a way to fix this - BTW in the last 2 years we have used our insurance only for being sick (sore throat, etc. nothing major)so I have no idea why our premium keeps going up. Maybe everyoen should drop their insurance and see if this wouldn't wake up the insurance companies as well as our Congress.
Great site and information.
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I think this is a great article. I agree with the part in the article that says Perhaps it would be wiser to cut taxes and stimulated Job growth instead of adding taxing those that still have jobs. The bill will include appx. $400 billion in new taxes on the health care industry over the next 10 years. Those taxes start January 1, 2010. (in 54 days) this is crazy. It gets worse and worse all the time on health care.
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