Senate Passes Historic Health Care Bill

Thu, December 24, 2009
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

The US Senate has passed the Democratic-led health care reform bill. The vote split down party lines this morning: 60 Democrats and Independents voted yes, and 39 Republicans voted against it. Alaska’s Senators sided with their respective parties. The Senate health care bill also includes reauthorizing the Indian Health Service, something Alaska’s Senators have long been pushing. But Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski is firmly against the overall bill. In the New Year, the Senate bill will have to be merged, or reconciled, with a version passed by the House.

Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC

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Comments

Goober

Mandatory health care...Buy health insurance or be fined or imprisoned??? People I proclaim to you, "Camp FEMA or LIBERTY...It is your choice." Please choose wisely.
johnkaiser

universal healthcare should be for everyone. what does anyone think that the prices at the hospital are fair now? i dont even go to the hospital when im hurt, ill probably have to sell my house to get a broken leg fixed. we are the richest country in the world but we dont want to help the poor? thats capitalism? i guess a trickle down theory leads right where it should-strait down to hell.
whitney

Nor will I purchase mandatory health care. I will not support any bill that does not support Life. Any bill that funds abortion is a bill I cannot funnel money into.
frederico70

There goes my freedom of choice. Now, I have to by insurance. I don't have insurance due to the fact it is an business scam. It goes back centuries as gambling. No. I will stand alone!! against this scam and sham!! I will not purchase insurance. Just cause an gang is telling me so. !! I may stand alone, I will fall alone. But!! I will not purchase insurance. No one has the ability to make me or coharse me to do it.
So. I Frederick J. Smith, Jr, With my own voice is saying '"NO!!" to mandatory insurance.
frederico70

Punished the poor who take care of their health. By making an mandatory law for purchasing health insurance. What an load of crock!!!