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Obama urges Senate to take up healthcare after late-night House action

By Eric Zimmermann - 11/08/09 01:10 PM ET

President Obama thanked the House today for passing healthcare reform and urged the Senate today to "take the baton" from the lower chamber.

"For year we've been told this couldn't be done," Obama said in remarks from the Rose Garden "But last night the House proved differently."

Obama acknowledged that for many Democrats last night's vote was politically difficult.

"I know this was a courageous vote for many members of congress. I'm grateful to them and the rest of their colleages for taking us this far," he said.

Obama said he was "absolutely confident" that the Senate would pass a bill as well, adding that senators will "be able to join their House colleages and say this is their finest hour in public service."



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Nice spin Obama. We all know you expected the House to pass a bill months ago, and the extremely partisan bill that narrowly passed the House yesterday is DOA in the Senate as Lindsey Graham said. We the people will also be watching closely and expect you to uphold your repeated very public promises to exclude illegal aliens in any health reform package.BY Joe on 11/08/2009 at 13:49
Hopefully the Senate will kill this bill…I can not afford any more taxes…BY bailedout on 11/08/2009 at 14:29
Lindsey Graham is an idiot. He hopes the bill is DOA in the Senate because all the 'party of no' wants to do is 'bring Obama down'. People like Graham are in office for the perks and to fatten their wallets with corporate kickbacks. What do they care if 42 million Americans have no health insurance? They've got theirs, so to hell with the rest of us.BY Joanne from Maine on 11/08/2009 at 14:30
Republicans keep spouting out their 'talking points' about how taxes will go up if we pass this healthcare reform bill. Yes, they will go up if you're wealthy! The rich enjoyed tax break after tax break during the 8 years of King George Bush. It's about time they paid their fair share of the taxes in this country and give the hard working middle class a tax break for once! And, for the people who are complaining about taxes going up…how much money do you fork over to the insurance companies each month in premiums? That's only going to keep getting worse without competition of a public plan to force them to stop gouging people! If you're wealthy, you don't care how much you have to pay in premiums and co-pays and deductibles. So a 1% increase in your taxes is pocket change to you. The middle class in this country can't afford the outrageous price of private health insurance, so we go without. Then when we get really sick we have to go to the emergency room which costs ten times what a doctor's office visit costs! So complaining about taxes going up on the wealthy .3% doesn't draw any sympathy from the majority of this country who aren't rich.BY Joanne from Maine on 11/08/2009 at 14:49
Joanne,you show that you're an idiot by spouting the discredited number of "42 million Americans" with no health coverage. Even Obama has backed off this figure.BY Dave on 11/08/2009 at 14:51
Hey Dave. Why don't you try thinking instead of name-calling? Intelligent people find it difficult to take you seriously when your bigotry is hanging out like that. The only possible way you and Joe and your BailedOut buddy can believe the lies that you repeat from Faux News is if you truly want and need to believe them to keep you in your happy place back in 1950. It doesn't make sense. Death panels? Seriously? We should be ashamed of ourselves. It doesn't matter if it's 42 million Americans or 42 Americans. When people suffer and die just to pad the wallets of CEOs, it is wrong, and it is un-American to care more about a tiny increase in taxes than we do about our fellow citizens. Shame on you.BY Candi on 11/08/2009 at 15:07
well i got my 2010 renewal info and humana doubled my premium from 43 to 88 a month this is with the advantage plan plus does anyone know of a better deal(obviously there getting my 96 a month toplease send it to tr7fan@gmail.com obviously i gotta get a different plan thanksBY ted409 on 11/08/2009 at 15:16
What is wrong with our idiot President? He should be ASHAMED that the House did a midnight vote on this job-killing trillion-dollar-tax bill.Unemployment is over 10% and he wants to ram through a bill that put mandates on small businesses that will make them clam up on job hiring. I have friends who lost jobs this past month in the Obama economy - these are professionals with long careers that are up in smoke under Obama. And all the leftists want to do is destroy more businesses, jobs, and lives in the name of their ideological extremism. Anyone who doesnt see the job-killing aspects of this bill is blind. SHAME ON YOU LEFTISTS FOR PUSHING THIS DESTRUCTIVE BILL THAT WILL HURT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.BY PJ on 11/08/2009 at 15:25
Illegal aliens and health care shouldn't be memtioned in the same breath. They're two distinct problems. So they wouldn't be included in any health care bill. So what? They will be treated in any emergency room as the uninsured are now at five times the costs to the government. Let's get off this issue and solve one problem at a time. Our peolple need this reform.By Eddie BBY Edward Bowman on 11/08/2009 at 20:59
So, you don't like "kickbacks" right?Well maybe you should read the story that Pelosi in going to be UNDER INVESTIGATION by the FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION for dispatching one of her top Lieutenants to meet with Dede Scozzafava before the Assemblywoman's shocking endorsment of Bill Owens (D), Apparently Ms. Scozzafava not only had a Campaign debt she was struggeling with but her business life was not doing well at all.There's more information for all you people with intelligence here:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381473/postsAfter seeing what 'We The People' were able to accomplish in several states this past week and kicking jerks like Corzine to the curb, we KNOW WE ARE WINNING!And, the INSANE Health Care bill is DOA in the Senate, so just face up to it, geez.Your NOT going to get your Jumbo 'Entitlement' you want, so give up.I'm planning my trip to Washington DC with many, many, many other's in the Tea Party Movement.You can't beat us people when we get organized like we are.BY To Joanne from Maine on 11/09/2009 at 05:50

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