health care

The article "House passes health care bill 219-212 vote" discusses Obama's recent victory with the Health care bill. It explains how this bill is the largest expansion of federal health care guarantee since Medicaid and Medicare four decades ago. The plan is estimated at 940 million dollars, and will ensure health care for 32 million American's that are not currently covered. This was seen as an enormous victory by Obama. He has spent the past few weeks traveling to try and persuade House Members. The Republican party attempted to have bill declined by warning that this bill will lead to government takeover of America's private employer based health care system. They also feared it will lead to higher premiums and taxes while causing drastic Medicaid cuts. However Obama managed to get the bill passed by the House of representatives by 219 members. 178 Republicans and 34 Democrats opposed the bill. However the bill is passed and now will be sent to the Senate.

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