House Health Bill Has Nowhere to Go in Senate
Government Insurance]Health Insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to some Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. 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..

Health Bill Unacceptable In Senate: PHOTO
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House health bill unacceptable to many in Senate
Don't look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on Health Care overhaul. A government Insurance]Health Insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They're locked in a battle with liberals, with the fate of President Barack Obama's signature issue at stake. 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...

Healthcare bill faces tough path in Senate
By John Whitesides Washington (Reuters) - After a landmark win in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the Senate amid divisions in his own Democratic Party on how to proceed. On a 220-215 vote, including the support of one Republican and opposition from 39 Democrats, the House backed a bill late on Saturday that would expand coverage to nearly all Americans and bar Insurance practices such as refusing to cover people with...

Healthcare bill faces tough path in Senate
Washington (Reuters) - After a landmark win in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the Senate amid divisions in his own Democratic Party on how to proceed. On a 220-215 vote, including the support of one Republican and opposition from 39 Democrats, the House backed a bill late on Saturday that would expand coverage to nearly all Americans and bar Insurance practices such as refusing to cover people with pre-existing medical...

Healthcare bill faces tough path in Senate
By John Whitesides Washington (Reuters) - After a landmark win in the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the Senate amid divisions in his own Democratic Party on how to proceed. On a 220-215 vote, including the support of one Republican and opposition from 39 Democrats, the House backed a bill late on Saturday that would expand coverage to nearly all Americans and bar Insurance practices such as refusing to cover people with...

Health-Care Passes the House, But Now Comes the Really Hard Part
On Saturday morning, about 12 hours before the U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation to expand Health-care coverage to almost all Americans, President Barack Obama did what he does best: He gave an inspirational speech meant to rally recalcitrant House Democrats. Many in the room credited Obama with swaying the last of the fence sitters. "A few members that were leaning no told me afterwards that they'd been moved to vote yes," Rep. Rob Andrews, a New Jersey Democrat, told...

Health care bill faces struggles in the Senate
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...

Hoekstra reacts to health care bill passing: PHOTO
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Health care bill faces tough path: PHOTO
Washington - By the skin of its teeth, with a narrow margin of just five votes, the House Health Care bill passed late Saturday night. Less than a day later from the rose garden, President Barack Obama urged senators to now finish the job. "Now it falls on the United States Senate to take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people," the president said. The second leg of the vote won't be easy. Many Republicans still maintain the Public Option would...

Health care overhaul divides Democratic senators, so House legislation faces huge hurdles
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...

Shocking News on Health Care: People May Get What They Voted For: PHOTO
I don't know what or who people thought they were voting for a year ago, but no one can claim there wasn't truth-in-advertising. Granted, most normal folk probably didn't go online in spring 2007 to read candidate Barack Obama's 15-page Health reform plan. Still, for anyone who cared, the whole thing was laid out right here -- and it tracks pretty closely with the landmark overhaul passed by the House.

The Associated Press: Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate
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...

Health bill faces battle in Senate
Washington - With the struggle over Health Care entering another difficult phase, President Obama has hit a milestone and a speed bump in his dual pursuit of a major overhaul of the nation's medical system and a rebirth of progressivism in America. House approval of the legislation Saturday, even if Democrats can move it no further, was an accomplishment that has eluded presidents for decades. But the close vote and the exertions it took to secure a majority were laden with warning signs as the...

Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate
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 Insurance]Health Insurance..

House health plan hits brick wall in Senate
Washington -- The glow from a Health-care triumph faded quickly for President 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...

Compromises get U.S. health bill through
U .S. Republicans are counting on Democratic defectors in the Senate to upend President Barack Obama's goal of extending Health-Insurance coverage to all Americans, now that the House of Representatives has narrowly passed its own reform bill. Though Mr. Obama's objective of enacting Health reform is now nearer reality, major hurdles remain. Republicans vowed Sunday that no final bill will reach the President's desk, with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham calling the House legislation...

House Pass Health Care Reform Bill, 220-215: PHOTO
The final vote the Health Care bill 3962 is shown as members of the house attend the vote on last night. (Photo from AP TV) A House Republican joined 219 Democrats to vote for the landmark Health Care reform bill last night in the House of Representatives, enabling the bill to pass 220 votes to 215 . Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan), who has "> introduced national Insurance]Health Insurance in every Congress since taking office 1955, said, "It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans. It offers...

American House Passed Health Care Reform Bill
American House of Representatives passed the Health Care reform (220-215) bill at last on Saturday night. It is a sure outcome of President Obama's personal request and appeal to the House members for the favor to pass the bill. This bill deals with the American Affordable Health Choices acts and called HR 3962. The most important part of this bill is the reformation of American Insurance]Health Insurance acts and laws. It will include expanded coverage for uninsured Americans, family and business...

Health Care Passes House With Abortion Amendment
November 9, 2009 House lawmakers on Saturday passed a sweeping bill that would overhaul the nation's Health Care system. The measure, supported mostly by Democrats, contained an Abortion amendment that required the party to make a significant shift to the right.

In Health Care Debate, GOP OD's on Rhetoric
When the Tea Partiers came to town to rant about the emerging Health Care legislation, there was plenty of extreme--and hateful--talk at the rally officially hosted by House Republicans at the Capitol. Yet the rhetoric hurled by Republican legislators during the historic debate that led to passage of the House Health reform bill on a 220-215 vote this past weekend was more ludicrous. At a demonstration, speakers can get riled up by a riled-up crowd and fling rubbish. But on the House floor,...

Obama Gears Up To Face The Senate After House of Reps Clears His Ambitious Health Bill.
Upon passing the censor of the House of Representatives through the course of an exhaustive, often bitter, fiercely contested and stormy session, the ambitious flagship Health bill of the Obama Administration, which claims to Fashion a revolutionary overhaul of the American medical system, now awaits the verdict of the Senate over the reform measure. Moments after this monumental verdict by the House of Representatives, President Obama, in a Rose Garden appearance was quoted as saying that,...

Government-Run -Public Option' in Pelosi Health Bill Threatens to Kill Hospitals, Says Democrat Who Voted Against the Bill: PHOTO
Rep. Rick Boucher (D.-Va.), who voted against the Pelosi Health Care bill that was approved by the House of Representatives yesterday, said he fears that the government-run "Public Option" Insurance]Health Insurance plan the bill would create could kill the Hospitals in his congressional district.

Fred Hiatt - Fred Hiatt on stepping closer to universal health care -- and bankruptcy
The House bill would move us toward universal coverage -- and Bankruptcy.

Health bill 'will not pass Senate'
Speaking from The White House about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, the president 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 Insurance]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..