House Passes Health Care Bill

The big news of the weekend was that the House of Representatives passed the health care bill by a vote of 220 to 215 late Saturday night. 39 Democrats voted against the bill and 1 Republican (from Louisiana) voted for it. The proposed bill will cover 96 percent of Americans and provide subsidies for people who cannot affort health insurance. More about the bill can be found at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120214124&ps=cprs. As monumental as this may seem, I don't think anything will come of the House's bill anytime soon, as with the speed of American politics we could still be debating this issue during the next presidential election. It's unlikely that the Senate will pass the bill too, and thus a special commitee will be formed and we will be back to square one.