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Next Stop for Health Care Reform, The US Senate

by: ChangeThatWorks

Sat Nov 07, 2009 at 23:29:13 PM MST

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Late Tonight, the US House Passed Comprehensive Health Insurance Reform Bill

Denver, CO - Reps. Diana DeGette, Ed Perlmutter, Jared Polis and John Salazar, all Democrats, voted with the majority as the U.S. House of Representatives set the standard for real health insurance reform when it passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act late tonight.

Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey voted with the Republicans against this bill, with its affordability provisions that will finally make health insurance coverage attainable for millions of individuals and small businesses.

"The Affordable Health Care for America Act is exactly the type of transformation our health care system needs," said Kjersten Forseth, Colorado director for Change That Works. "This bill will make health care affordable, put doctors and patients back in charge of health care decisions, and provide real competition to the health insurance industry for the first time in decades. We applaud our Congressional delegation for standing with Coloradans and voting yes for this important legislation."

The House bill offers affordable, stable health insurance for every American for the first time in history. It ensures affordable coverage for 96 percent of Americans, is entirely paid for, and includes a strong public option that drives down costs and holds insurance companies accountable by letting families shop for the health insurance plan that best meets their needs.

ChangeThatWorks :: Next Stop for Health Care Reform, The US Senate

Assistance for small businesses is also an important part of the bill. It will halt outrageous annual premium hikes by introducing competition and ending the insurance companies' stranglehold on local markets.

The bill also provides small employers with access to large-group rates in the new Health Insurance Exchange which will enable them to offer a larger choice of plans to employees. In addition, an estimated 3.6 million small businesses which want to offer coverage for their workers, but have not been able to afford to.

"Small business owners like me have been waiting for a bill like this. I am proud that our Colorado delegation voted to help us improve our business and look forward to Senators' Udall and Bennet doing the same," said Larry Watson, owner of Rocky Soft.

"I know we can count on our Senators to following the House's lead and making health care more affordable for all Americans, especially small business owners."

Find the full vote count here
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For an interactive graphic about how the bill would affect you, click here
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Change That Works is a grassroots organization in Colorado and 11 other states that offers Americans a new avenue to make change with direct action and advocacy in support of a broad progressive agenda.

For more information, contact Colorado director Kjersten Forseth at Kjersten Forseth 719-641-4674 or Kjersten.Forseth@changethatworks.net.

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Help? What about abortion funding ?

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Does the bill, as passed, include the restrictions on funding abortion that the Amendment offered by Representative Stupak imposed ?
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by: Barron X @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 01:58:10 AM CST

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Stupak's Abortion Amendment To House Health Bill Passes In 240-194 Vote

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin...

Not getting involved, just happened across it.

"Don't go all "Ralphie" on me now: Just let it go." - Steve Harvey

by: droll @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 02:08:03 AM CST

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So, does the Catholic Church now support health care reform, ...

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as I said it would earlier, if this was resolved to their satisfaction ?
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by: Barron X @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 02:23:13 AM CST

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Probably Not

It sounds like birth control, either with medications or surgery is still available. Also, healthcare for GLBT people is still in the package.

This movie has been rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and destruction

by: Pam Bennett @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 06:11:04 AM CST

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The Catholic Church..

has said they will support the bill with the abortion amendment in it.

by: Douglasm @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 11:19:18 AM CST

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source?

or link?

I think they will too- unless the conscience clause is still a problem.

by: MADCO @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 21:26:12 PM CST

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I believe it does

include the Amendment offered by Representative Stupak from what I've heard.

by: rdshelmerdine @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 06:09:22 AM CST

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This is a historic victory

The fight will continue this year, and for years to come will make health care a civli right

How about a 5 trillion tax cut for the upper 1% that's borrowed from China and then invested in China? The Republican platform has legs.

by: Ray Springfield @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 09:57:02 AM CST

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yep

by: MADCO @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 21:26:30 PM CST

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Up to the Party of NO now...

...do you really what to take care of the American People, or is this just another calculated move to try and win elections?

"There is something good and motherly about Washington, the grand old benevolent National Asylum for the helpless." Mark Twain

by: SSG_Dan @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 11:01:20 AM CST

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Sen Bennet leads the fight

as he does on immigration.

He will alos have a huge impact on labor, financial regulation, and education legislation from his committee assignment.

How about a 5 trillion tax cut for the upper 1% that's borrowed from China and then invested in China? The Republican platform has legs.

by: Ray Springfield @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 14:51:21 PM CST

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Turn out the lights...

The party's over...

Can't wait to see Reid's ineptitude on full display in the next sixty days or so.

"Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

by: Laughing Boy @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 22:40:56 PM CST

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Reid has readily admitted he can't deliver to Pelosi-Obama

by: Libertad @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 23:23:53 PM CST

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Landrieu, Leiberman, Bayh, Condrad, Nelson, Lincoln, Snowe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33...

WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people."
The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.
If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.
"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said dismissively.

by: Libertad @ Sun Nov 08, 2009 at 23:33:24 PM CST

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Let Reid do the speaking...

I don't trust Republican Lindsey Graham to do the speaking for any Democrats.

"I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages-the less you know about the process the more you respect the result." -- Anonymous IL State Rep. circa 1878

by: Phoenix Rising @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 01:19:22 AM CST

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Senator Bennet's positions will be interesting to watch

A well earned "dynamic" characterisation

by: Libertad @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 10:20:31 AM CST

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Bennet

First he was against health care reform. Now he loves the notion and says he was just mixed up before, when he noticed Romanoff was running for his seat. He'll do whatever Emmanuel's boys tell him to do, since that's who bought him. He'll continue to be coy about unions and labor, but cut them off at the kneecaps like Ritter, as soon as he gets the chance to profit from it.

by: Chef @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 16:23:04 PM CST

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Kucinich Voted Against the Bill, Too

I am not sure what to make of Rep. Markey's vote against the bill. She says she voted "No" because the bill did nothing or very little to control costs. She is right. This was one of the reasons Kucinich voted "No."

Was Markey, like Kucinich, voting her values or was she merely being politically expedient? I don't know. Unfortunately, she has failed to explain herself very clearly.

She supports the public option and voted against the Stupak (Catholic Church) Amendment. That is more than we can say for Rep. Salazar.

by: jadodd @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 09:52:41 AM CST

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D.O.A.

Lindsay Graham and his stooge Lieberman have already said it's DOA as soon as it gets to them. Obama needs to show some spine and work the back room deals like he's never done before if this will ever amount to much.

If unemployment does not drop and we get no health care reform, Obama will be a "one hit wonder" and they're just now starting to figure that out. Emmanuel will have to have to some serious dealings soon if he isn't already.

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