World

Health Care Bill Pass with Promise of Senate Reconciliation Vote?

by Edmund Jenks | March 8, 2010 at 12:42 pm

122 views | 5 Recommendations | 2 comments

The President and the Democrat political party plan on convincing the members of the House of Representatives that if they pass this unchanged and unmodified bill, it will go back to the Senate for a "Reconciliation" vote.

Such a vote would fix the bill so that this legislation could be amended then voted on and passed by the Senate with a simple majority vote.

The problem with this strategy is that if the current Senate version of this legislation gets passed on promises that it will get fixed in the Senate instead can go directly to the office of the President and be signed into law by Barack Obama.

The only way a true "Reconciliation" process can happen is if the Senate sends a bi-partisan group of Senators (Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell needs to approve and appoint Republican political party Senate members to participate) to meet with members of the House of Representatives.

They would fashion an agreeable, modified version of their bill for the House to vote on so this bill can be passed through the House, sent to the Senate, who then can pass this version with a simple majority ... then signed into law by the President.

[Those opposed to the bill believe]It will mandate private citizens purchase health care, whether they need it or want it. It will cause millions of employers to cancel the health insurance they currently offer employees and force tens of millions of Americans into a government-run exchange.It will create a health care czar to impose price controls on private health insurance that will lead to shortages and force even more people into government-run care.

4 See all footage | View Slideshow

Share: email story | add to any | | facebook | stumbleupon

recommend This comment thread is now closed

Hugh Askew

at 12:51 on March 8th, 2010

I think there are about a dozen votes in the House that will vote no. Stupek claims to have enough votes to stop it from passing in the House, Pelosi plays coy, but doesn't sound confident.

Edmund Jenks

at 20:26 on March 8th, 2010

If they hold, they will have to be called patriots and applauded by their constituents. They still have to answer as to why we are in this spot in the first place!