Healthcare bill on the verge of passage, despite receiving a failing grade from healthcare experts

November 21, 1:50 PMDC SCOTUS

by Examiner Hans Bader
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The healthcare bill is on the verge of passing the Senate, despite the fact that it has received a failing grade from healthcare experts like the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the fact that it will increase taxes, deficits, and medical costs, while reducing lifesaving medical innovations.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid now has apparently lined up the 60 votes needed to cut off a filibuster of the bill, moving it closer to a final vote where it will need the votes of only 51 of the Senate's 60 Democrats to pass it. All 60 Democrats will vote to advance the bill today; all 40 Republicans will vote against it. Reid lined up the 60 votes through payoffs to wavering Senators and Democratic constituencies like unions (some mismanaged unions will receive a taxpayer bailout of their health plans, to the tune of up to $10 billion).

The Dean of Harvard Medical School recently gave Obama's healthcare plan a “failing grade,â€