House Passes Health Care “Fixes” Bill, Despite GOP “Roadblocks”

Not quite as exciting as the original, but no less important, the House ended Barack Obama‘s legislative action on the health care reform he signed into law on Tuesday by voting on a number of changes to the original bill earlier today. Passing by 56-43, the “fixes bill” still prompted to Republicans to raise two points of order against the new provisions, which will have to be addressed now that the Democrats don’t have the 60 votes to overrule. The amendments include a loan program to help offset the cost of the new bill, but also allowed GOP’ers to take out a student-lending initiative from the initial passages.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters that Republicans are “not serious about helping this bill” and only care about “throwing roadblocks in front of anything we do.”

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