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The senate vote was fifty three to forty three. The republicans were collectively opposed in both chambers (3 June 2010, B3).
The Future of the Health Care Bill
Subsequent to disagreements as political enemies for more than a year, the Obama administration and the health insurance industry realized that they require one another.
Both have huge stakes in the success of the new health care law (14 May 2010, B1)
The political destiny of President Obama and Congressional Democrats rely on their capability to interpret it's assurance into realism...
This can be attained by restraining health expenses and making insurance accessible to everybody at reasonable price. Similarly, the fiscal future, in fact the continued existence, of the health insurance industry relies on the government. That is on set of laws being written by federal officers and on hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding to the insurance companies in order to cover low and middle-income individuals (15 May 2010, A22).
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