Health Care Bill Status

The current health care bill has passed though the House of Representatives, but is now being debated in the Senate. Right now Republicans are stalling the bill as they argue with Democrats over topics such as the coverage of abortion, and the government selling health insurance in competition with the private market. The bill needs sixty votes to pass through the one hundred member senate. Republicans are still united against the the Democratic bill which proposes that the government sell health care, and which the Republicans believe would cost the government too much money. Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders are not happy with any of the proposals made to by the Republicans to try and fix this problem. Despite the continued divide however, lawmakers and White House officials seemed optimistic after having meetings all day Saturday, and believe they are on the right track with the legislative process. I honestly am not sure where the bill is headed. It sounds like the Democrats are not going to budge on having government run health care, so I think that they will come to some compromise with the Republicans, but not one that will completely give up government run health care.