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Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House
theodp writes "A hastily-crafted amendment imposing tough new restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance policies helped pave the way for the House to approve the Democrats' bill to overhaul the nation's health insurance system. 'It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans,' said Rep. John Dingell. Rep. Candice Miller disagreed, calling the legislation 'a jobs-killing, tax-hiking, deficit-exploding' bill. The 1,990-page, $1.2 trillion legislation passed by a vote of 220-215 and moves on for Senate debate, which is expected to begin in several days."
Update — 11/08 at 13:45 GMT by SS: Changed vote totals above to reflect the actual bill vote. The 240-194 number was for the abortion restrictions amendment.
>What's with the remaining 4%? How come not everyone will be covered?
That 4% will be lawyers.
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Capitalism is the worst...except for everything else.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
You are looking at it completely wrong man. Paris Hilton is a perfect example of capitalism working beautifully. Here is why:
1. Paris Hilton is a worthless bitch who inherited all of her wealth from others.
2. Paris Hilton spends untold amounts of money on utterly worthless crap: clothing, parties, drugs, herpes medication.
3. Paris Hilton will never, ever contribute anything of value to this world. Her movie, The Hottie and Nottie made like $5 in the theaters.
4. Eventually Paris Hilton will transfer all of her wealth to others. The system works without government intervention.
I think it is a wonderful system. Easter island was destroyed by rich people consuming all natural resources in a bid to out do their rich neighbors. In the United States that wealth gets harmlessly diverted into things like shoes and handbags that cost 20,000 bucks. Society is preserved.