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Obama praises Senate passage of health bill President cites Republican Olympia Snowe for her ‘political courage’

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10/13/2009 7:12 PM

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Obama praises Senate passage of health bill President cites Republican Olympia Snowe for her ‘political courage’

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And on goes the show....

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says passage of legislation by a key Senate committee is "a critical milestone" toward getting a health care overhaul this year, but that "now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back."

Obama spoke in the Rose Garden on Tuesday about two hours after the Senate Finance Committee approved its version of health care reform. Obama praised the bill but didn't endorse it over the others that have passed other committees.

With the versions now needing to be merged, Obama cautioned against premature celebrating. He said "we are now closer than ever before" to overhauling the nation's health care system, but that "now is the time to dig in and work even harder."
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Obama praised Sen. Olympia Snowe for her political courage in voting to approve the bill. She was the only Republican on the committee to do so.

The Maine lawmaker said she was laying aside misgivings for now and voting to advance the bill, a sweeping $829-billon, 10-year health care remake that would help most Americans get coverage without creating a new government insurance plan. "When history calls, history calls," said Snowe.

Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., called his bill "a commonsense, balanced solution." A distance runner, Baucus has endured months of marathon meetings to get this far. It's not the finish line.

Health care legislation is expected to be on the Senate floor the week after next, said a spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. But it won't be the Baucus bill. Reid will combine the Finance version with a more liberal proposal from the health committee — with unpredictable results.

Baucus said in an interview with The Associated Press after the vote that he hopes his bill survives the merger process without major changes.

"The bottom line here is we need a final bill, a merged bill that gets 60 votes," Baucus said. "Our goal is to pass health care reform, not just talk about it."

The vote in the Finance Committee was 14-9, with Snowe joining all 13 Democrats in support. In a sign of long political battles ahead, every other Republican voted against it.

The ultimate fate of the legislation hinges on how lawmakers decide dozens of unresolved issues, from letting government sell insurance to abortion coverage. Even some senators who voted for the Baucus bill said they have concerns it will deliver on providing access to affordable coverage for all.

As Snowe made clear, "My vote today is my vote today. It doesn't forecast what my vote will be tomorrow."

The Baucus plan would, for the first time, require most Americans to purchase insurance and it also aims to hold down spiraling medical costs over the long term. Questions persist about whether it would truly provide access to affordable coverage, particularly for self employed people with solid middle class incomes.

The Finance Committee's top Republican, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, gave voice to the GOP's concerns about the bill, saying it was "moving on a slippery slope to more and more government control of health care." ...

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10/13/2009 7:20 PM

Re: Obama praises Senate passage of health bill President cites Republican Olympia Snowe for her ‘political courage’

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Yeah, like anyone with any brains would support a health care decision by a government that promoted the swine flu vaccine.
Fuck the whole US medical system.

I'll take Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Joel Wallach, the vitamin C study of 40 years by Dr. Klenner and supported by Linus Pauling, raw food diet and pure water as promoted by Dr. Larraine Day (she cured her own cancer by using it), Wayne Green and others, and they can stick their health care program up their asses along with all the swine flu vaccine on earth.

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