The US health care bill has got a new thrust. Democrats moved legislation to restructure parts of the new health care revamp law through the Senate on Thursday and sent it to the House of Representatives, which was supposed give it ultimate approval within hours.
Keen to get the debatable battle behind them, Democrats actually perceived that the Senate’s vote would ship the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature. However, the bill went to the
House of Representatives because Senate Republicans discovered two small provisions having to do with student grants that had to be altered because they were contradictory to the budget rules. Both chambers must agree with the identical legislation before it can be dispatched to the White House.
Democrats say they do not anticipate any big problems and that their work should be completed by the evening. The Senate said yes to the measure by 56-43 on Thursday, with Vice President Joe Biden presiding in case his vote was needed to break a tie. Calling attention to the partisan divide that has characterized the prolonged health care fight, all voting Republicans did not agree with the measure, as did three Democrats.
The Health bill is an addition to the key legislation passed by Congress over the weekend and signed by Obama on Tuesday. The major health care bill would give coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans over 10 years with a first-time condition for nearly everyone to have insurance and would prohibit insurance company practices such as denying coverage to sick people. The Health Bill measure represents the largest extension of the U.S. federal government’s social safety net since the 1960s.
Obama’s mission to change the country’s health care system – reached its zenith on Tuesday when he signed wide-ranging changes into law . In compliance with this, senators approved the bill on Thursday after voting on 40 consecutive Republican amendments, with Democrats beating everyone. They voted until after 2 a.m. Thursday, then continued the roll calls later in the morning, making a total of 13 hours of relentless voting.
“This has been a governmental fight that will be in the record books,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, said before the final Senate vote.
Beaten and sensing defeat, Republicans forced the votes on amendments aimed at changing the measure — or at least allowing Democrats to take votes that could go against them in the campaign for November congressional elections. One such proposed Republican amendment was to stop federal purchases of erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders, which one Democratic senator, Max Baucus, brushed off as “a crass political stunt.”
The Senate vote occurred as Obama gave a campaign style speech in Iowa City, Iowa, to promote his health care reform and challenged Republicans to follow through on repeated threats to try revoking the law. “My attitude is, go for it” and see how voters like that, he taunted. “If they want to have that fight, we can have it. Because I don’t believe the American people are going to put the insurance industry back in the driver’s seat,” he said.
The FBI is joining hands with lawmakers subjected to threatening obscenity-laced phone messages. In some cases, bricks were thrown at congressional offices, including Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter’s district headquarters in Niagara Falls, New York.
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by on 26. Mar, 2010 in Health News
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