Thursday morning The Senate passed a $871 billion health care reform bill. This gives President Barack Obama a Christmas victory on his top domestic priority. After months of heated debate all members of the Senate ended up voting their party line.
This bill would constitute the largest expansion of federal health care since Medicare and Medicaid over four decades ago. It would extend insurance coverage to over 30 million additional Americans. “We are now finally poised to deliver on the promise of real, meaningful health-insurance reform that will bring additional security and stability to the American people,” Obama said shortly after the vote.
This Senate bill will be merged with a plan approved by the House of Representatives in 2009. Democrats plan to have a bill to President Obama for signature before the first State of the Union address in 2010.
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