About time! Health care bill passes...

Not a perfect bill, and no public option (which takes out the real teeth in making insurance companies compete), but it's about time they did away with denials of pre-existing conditions and a huge raft of other reforms. The ignorant will call this "socialism", and they don't know what is really in the reform bill or what socialism really is.

Make no mistake, despite it's flaws this is a good step forward for the nation.

The House passed on Sunday the Senate's health care reform bill and a package of measures meant to reconcile differences between the Senate bill and the one it passed last year.

Here's the latest on what's happening:

11:48 p.m.: President Obama says that the House's vote on health care "wasn't an easy vote but it was the right vote."

Speaking from the East Room of the White House, the president, who made health care reform a priority for his administration, said the vote wasn't a victory for a political party but for the American people.

Obama said the reform plan won't fix everything wrong with the nation's health care system, "but it moves us decisively in the right direction."

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