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Senate passes health care reform bill, now back to House for final vote
The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The last piece of President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the US health-care system won approval Thursday in the Senate, moving an initiative that has sharply divided the nation one step away from final approval on Capitol Hill.
The Senate, voting 56-43, approved the legislation and sent the measure back to the House for one final vote before it is cleared for Obama’s signature. The House vote is expected late Thursday.
The legislation makes a series of changes to the sweeping health bill signed into law on Tuesday, including bolstering promised subsidies to help people purchase insurance and closing a politically unpopular gap in prescription-drug coverage under Medicare, the health-insurance program for seniors.
