Senate must Vote on Health Care Plan - Needed 60 votes to pass

Last weekend, the House of Representatives passed Obama's Health Care Plan, and that in itself was a big victory. But that is only the beginning. Now the Senate gets to take a turn at voting on it, and it will definitely prove more difficult. The Senate must get 60 votes to pass the measure, then a congressional conference committee will need to merge the House and Senate proposals into a consensus version requiring final approval from each chamber, before moving to President Obama's desk to be signed into law. I believe that this will not happen until at least January or possibly not until the beginning of spring. The bill that passed in the House a few days ago is much more expansive, and costs more that $1 trillion for a period of over the next 10 years. This was reported by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.