Health Care Reform has been passed. The Health Care Reconciliation package that needed to be voted on in the Senate has a few procedural faults, and must be revoted on in the House in order to make the minor corrections. It could fail by a 0-403 vote, and it would not change what the President signed on Tuesday.

The Huffington Post is reporting an upside that since the major hurtle has passed, the Senate can now introduce a Public Option amendment and vote on it before sending it back to the House. If it passes, then the Republicans just shot their other foot off while trying to fix the first one. If it doesn't pass, then no big deal! We just try again later

^^ That's right. HR 3590 passed and was signed into law. Now they're working on amendments to it. :)

Pay more attention, Dan! http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3…

The house passed the Senate bill from Xmas eve as-is, which Obama then signed. Done.

They also passed a bunch of amendments to the senate bill, which then has to head to the senate to get approved. That's what's being bounced back to the house. It will pass, and the GOP will look even more like the obstructionist fucks they are. Even if it didn't, the original Senate bill has been made law and will remain so until our socialist hell consumes itself - just like what happened to Sweden.

1 covered it, but I'll add one thing: what is now law is the bill that passed the senate prior to the Massachussetts special election, the one that got 60 votes. On Saturday, that bill, completely unchanged, was passed in the House with 219 votes, and was signed into law by the Presidents.

The House also passed its own version of the bill with minor changes and the removal of some of the kickbacks to Senators who no longer need to be on board. That bill passed with 220 votes, and that is the bill that was just sent back to the House because the Senate Parliamentarian ruled that some language in the bill failed to meet the requirements for the reconciliation process, whereby the Senate can avoid the need for a filibuster-proof majority (and Ben Nelson).

im a peaceful person. i really am. but i sincerely hope that these idiots trying to block this bill get cancer and can't afford it. not a helpful thing to say, but hey, i live in DC, and i'm saying it here so i don't say it to one of these tea party fucks who are all up in the damned metro carrying their damned signs about fascism on my way to school...yes, they are using public transportation while bitching about the government getting too big...i have never hated anyone the way i hate these people.

except maybe octomom

and Stupak bedded himself with dogs, got in line anyway in exchange for some redundant for show executive order... then finds out it's not the left wing nutters you gotta worry about. sucka.

was that sarcasm? at any rate, just a student, so i still vote in my home state. thank god i don't live here...i swear it has to be something in the water here that makes people so insane, something that also tastes like chlorine and lime

@6: By the way, DC'ers do get to vote in Presidential elections. And since DC gets three electoral votes (same as small states like Alaska and Wyoming), and it has a smaller population than any state but Wyoming, each of their votes counts a little bit more than you'd think every four years.
As my AP US History teacher put it two years ago, Washington DC is its own never-never-land. Don't open up that thar can o' worms.

@1 wrote: "since the major hurtle has passed, the Senate can now introduce a Public Option amendment and vote on it before sending it back to the House."

That would be awesome and funny as hell to watch the repubs cry in their beers over it, but the dems don't have the balls to pull off something sweet like that.

Dan, for someone advocating for the health care reform, you should know what is going on. This post only exposes your ignorant.

Still a big fan.

I am sure the minority will be able to muster the majority of votes needed to "amend" the bill.

NOT.

It's all Kabuki theatre at this point. And the America-hating Republic Party of No knows that.

(it's HURDLE not hurtle)

Yes, I'll go edit my post now, Will.

OK, people....What don't you get?

Your health care system is the most expensive in the world, and the general populace is not getting adequate coverage. You are the ONLY developed country in the world where health care is delivered on the basis to pay. Tourists to your country pay exhorbitant rates of travel health insurance to spend money in your economy. You pay more for drugs than anyone else on the planet.

What is it, that you are perceiving?