Senate Defeats GOP Health Care Repeal Effort

47 Ayes to 51 Nays. 60 Ayes were needed for cloture.

Link:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/02/02/senate_republicans_lose_vote_on_health_law/?p1=News_links

Lockstep is the name of the game.

Woah! The GOP are really improving at wasting effort, time, and obviously, tax dollars.

I'm curious about this effort they had embarked on, though. The "health care reform", (despite the requirements) appeared to be a boon, or even a bailout for the insurance industry. So, seeing how pro-business the GOP is, was this potentially an effort to solidify and underscore a perceived value in the act while helping to assure that single payer stays off the table?

To me, single player, not mandated health insurance, is not only what many want and need, but it also looks to be an ominous blow to insurance company profits. It could even greatly diminish the number of players and even force the leftovers into competition. Gosh forbid, in an so-called capitalistic, "free market" that they would have to compete in order to stay afloat or in business.

Their neo-con and neo-liberal boomerang experiment in Egyptian has chit them off the airways.

Between Gabby Giffords and Egypt, no one even remembers their destroy Health Care mission. :evilgrin:

Idiots.

books a Republican controlled do-nothing congress.