OK..just got off work/brain dead.. WTF happened with the healthcare bill?

[w8liftinglady]

Do you have a link to the roll call?

what,seriously,will happen?

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. The repeal passed the House on a more-or-less....

...party line vote -- 3 Dems crossed over.

All we need now is for the Senate to pass it with a veto-proof margin by a grand righto-leftist coalition, and we can finally get to work on single payer, once that crap ACA is killed off.

Single payer is such a good idea, I predict even Republicans will have to vote for it, or lose their seats in a 2012 tidal wave. It'll pass itself.

Seriously.

[w8liftinglady]

3. I hope you're right.

[karynnj]

4. If HCR is repealed, the result will NOT be single payer

Last year Bernie Sanders said there were less than 10 Senators who would vote for it - and at least one who was likely in that count _ Dodd - is gone.


It can't "pass itself" - Congressmen and Senators have to vote for it - and I suspect that Sanders, who introduced single payer legislation knows more than you on the likelihood of it passing.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. But it's so logical...

...I blame Obama. All Obama has to do is bully-FDR-pulpit-JFK-arm-LBJ-twist-HST-primary-Big Dog-challenge-want-it-bad-enough.

He has to want it a little badder enough-er because of the mid-term election results, but hey, it's still all up to him, isn't it?

[karynnj]

6. I agree that if you look at other places that have it, it is cheaper and more efficient

There are however far too many people who are ideologically against it. No amount of arm twisting would have gotten 60 votes for it - and that is what was needed. Remember that they could not even get Medicare buy in for those over 55 who wanted it. (Note that is less in two ways - choice and only for a one decade cohort.)

[sweetapogee]

7. david

what data are you looking at that enables you to predict single payer will pass tidal wave or pukes lose 2012?

[elias49]

8. Come on. Get real. nt

[w8liftinglady]

2. ahhh... here it is

http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2011/01/19/roll-call-hr-2-repealing-the-job-killing-health-care-law-act-passes-house/