Landrieu and Lincoln Line Up. Health Care Debate Is On.

Courtesy Donklephant  Sat, 11/21/2009 - 3:01pm

It’s happening…

Two final holdouts, Sens.

Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, announced in speeches a few hours apart on the Senate floor they would vote to clear the way for what is expected to be a bruising, full-scale health care debate after Thanksgiving.

At a 10-year cost approaching $1 trillion, the measure is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it, crack down on insurance company practices...



 

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