Senate health care bill clears key hurdle
Washington (CNN) -- Democrats won a major victory in their push for health care reform early Monday morning as the Senate voted to end debate on a package of controversial revisions to a sweeping $871 billion bill.
The 60-40 party-line vote, cast shortly after 1 a.m., kept Senate Democrats on track to pass the bill on Christmas Eve. If it passes, the measure will then have to be merged with a roughly $1 trillion plan passed by the House of Representatives in November. Shortly after the vote, the Senate went into recess until noon Monday.
Remember this in 2010 and 2012. Vote them all out, every last one. If they voted for this monstrosity, they deserve to be shown the door post haste. But that's not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post is to begin a running tally of the increase in the total cost of this bill. Right now they're claiming $871 billion over ten years. Let's highlight that:
$871,000,000,000 over 10 years
Let's see how that number changes as they actually implement this program. The Big Dig, a localized transportation improvement project in a major US city ballooned from $2 billion to over $22 billion, not counting legal bills for shoddy workmanship. That was a single project in one city. This is the entire health care system of a major world power. $871 billion to provide health insurance coverage to "30 million" more people. Let's see how those numbers change as real life intrudes on their socialist wet dream.
Oh, and ignore that ratcheting sound you hear - I'm certain it has nothing to do with our march towards socialism.
That is all.
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