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The Houses second-ranking Democrat Rep. Steny Hoyer predicted that historic health care legislation will be passed in the House on Saturday. The legislation is aimed at extending coverage to tens of millions of Americans who are currently uninsured and will prohibit the insurance industry from turning people away for pre-existing health conditions.
Rep. Hoyer told reporters House leaders should have the 218 needed votes to pass the sweeping bill President Barack Obama has made a defining goal of his administration, because a couple unresolved issues remain law makers acknowledge the vote could be tight. "I wouldn't refer to it as a squeaker, but I think it's going to be close," Rep. Hoyer said. "This is a huge undertaking."
Passage in the House would be a major step toward fashioning a bill President Obama could sign into law. However subsequent moves in the Senate will be substantially more difficult. The upper chamber is sharply divided on what the bill should look like, and differences between the two bills must first be reconciled into a single piece of legislation before the President makes it the law of the land.
Senior political leaders say the Senate version may not be finished until next year, which could pose difficulties for Democrats worried debate over health care could affect election-year politics. A worry made all the more bothersome outside law makers offices as a couple thousands Tea Party conservatives, many bused in by the Health insurance lobbies fake grass roots campaign, rallied against health care reform. Protesters shouted, "Kill the bill," as they awaited speeches by the more vocal wing nut members of the Republican Party.
The campaign-style event kicked off a daylong protest against the legislation. Protesters carried signs saying 'Vote no to government-run health care." Some carried gruesome photos of concentration camps and Obama as the joker or a Kenyan witch doctor. Visual displays of racism, white pride and race hate were prevalent among the all white throng of tea party patriots.
The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a comprehensive national health care plan for all its citizens. Republicans and FOX news oppose government involvement as the first step on a slippery slope to "socialized" medicine, a term used to denigrate other countries' health care systems, the corporate inspired movement calls for a return to the mythical era of rugged American individualism, in which people should be responsible for their own health care.
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