Health Care Reform. Passing The Bill. Will It Happen?

Health Care Reform Now, Please.

What happens if we do nothing?

"We've come too far now to throw this bill out. That's what the Republicans want us to do. Start all over", said John Conyers in a event during a WPFW Raucus Caucus radio discussion held this past Tuesday night at Ben's Next Door, a spin-off of the famous Ben's Chili Bowl.

"We've been in this debate for over a year. Now, is the time. Let's get it done."

[Congressman John Conyers (middle) speaking during a radio sponsored event this past Tuesday on Health Care Reform. Photo by CD Brown for Politcs. On Point.]

"All Democrats are voting for this bill", said Conyers. "That's a sign of progress. The fact that all Republicans are voting against it, doesn't mean that the government's broke. It means we got to kick out the Republicans that are against it, or make some of them come over."

Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, saying he may be the "deciding vote," announced on Wednesday he will back the Senate-passed healthcare bill that President Barack Obama hopes to sign into law.

Kucinich voted against the bill last year saying, “We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem."

Democrats need 216 votes to win House passage. It is expected that the bill will pass this weekend.

The President will be in Fairfax, VA at George Mason University's Patriot Center for a health care reform rally on this Friday, beginning at 11:00 am.

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Kucinich: Healthcare Is A Civil Right - "It's Personal"
Dec, 2009: Senate Passes Health Care Reform

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