Upton's Bill passed. 39 Dems crossed over to vote for it.
Glad it is going to die in the Senate.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-passes-health-plan-bill/story?id=20903139
Thirty-nine House Democrats joined 222 Republicans to pass the "Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013," a bill to allow Americans to keep certain health care plans banned because of Obamacare.
The 261-to-157 vote was the largest sign of defection yet for President Obama on his signature legislative achievement.
Many of the Democrats who supported the bill, sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., are in highly competitive districts and were eager to cast a vote in support of fixing the troubled Affordable Care Act.
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It was the latest in a series of embarrassing blows for the White House. But it remained symbolic. The Senate won't take up the bill and the White House threatened to veto it.
House Speaker John Boehner called the vote "a big, bipartisan statement about the need to make things right" regarding the hang-ups in the controversial law.
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"The Keep Your Health Plan Act represents an important step toward providing relief to those who have lost their plans and face much higher premiums, but the real solution is to scrap the president's fundamentally flawed health care law and focus on effective, patient-centered reforms that will protect all Americans from this train wreck."
more at the link. 39 jumped ship. I wonder if crying John was sober.
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