Ten results of healthcare reform within the first six months.

Apparently the Collapse of the Republic and Our American Way of Life feature doesn't kick in until later (thnx to alert reader HJ for the pointer.)

John Boehner said last night that The People would be pissed. I'm a people, and while this is less than it could have been I'm reasonably happy with it.

WaPo calculator: What it means for you.

What happens next: To Obama, and then to the Senate.

Kay Hagan press release (full text after the jump): "The Senate will now take up a bill to improve the overall reform package, including the removal of special deals for certain states."

Hagan press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-NC) today commented after the House of Representatives passed comprehensive health care reform. Today, the House passed the Senate health care bill, which will now go to President Obama for his signature. The House also passed a separate bill that makes improvements to the Senate bill, including the removal of the special Medicaid deal for Nebraska. Next week, the Senate will take up this package of improvements. The President is expected to sign the comprehensive health care reform bill early this week.

“The House’s passage of comprehensive health care reform is a milestone achievement that will benefit North Carolina’s hardworking families and small businesses and will finally make health insurance available to people with preexisting conditions,” said Hagan. “Here is why we need reform: ten years ago, North Carolinians paid $6,000 in annual family premiums. Today they pay $12,000. By 2016, it is projected that families will pay $24,000. North Carolina’s families deserve better than this.

“The Senate will now take up a bill to improve the overall reform package, including the removal of special deals for certain states. For example, I support removing the special Medicaid deal for Nebraska. I am working with my Senate colleagues to send President Obama a package of improvements that will do even more to lower costs for families and businesses.”

Comments

[Ged]

Go read that list of immediate benefits and tell me Republican's aren't on the wrong side of the vote as we move forward. Someone PLEASE try and tell me that, I wanna hear it from the usual suspects. It'll be rich.

[Andrew Brod]

Bubba: "All 10 items are lies, and I have the conservative blog posts to prove it."

Spag: "Once again Ed is refusing to be clear about his true hyper-partisan beliefs. I wonder if he thinks about me when he lies in bed at night."

Angry as Hell: "Socialism, socialism, socialism. Fascism, fascism, fascism. Coon, kike."

[Andrew Sansone]

Lots of peeps tweeting about HCR today on Twitter and Obama live streamed as well http://bit.ly/9xc0ef