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Thursday, January 20, 2011

The vote was 245-189, with three Democrats -- Dan Boren (D-Okla.), Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.), and Mike Ross (D-Ark.) -- voting for repeal.

The vote to repeal health care was initially delayed by a parliamentary debacle in which two House Republicans skipped the swearing-in ceremony for a Capitol fundraiser, yet voted despite not being official members of Congress. It was delayed an additional week as the House paid tribute to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other victims of the Arizona massacre.

The GOP is calling it the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. Democrats, defending the bill, argued that covering 30 million additional people necessarily creates jobs in the health care sector and reduces the burden on small businesses. And repealing it would add more than $200 billion to the federal deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office. "I want to just advise people watching at home playing the now-popular drinking game, if you take a shot whenever the Republicans say something that's not true, please assign a designated driver," Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said.

Sumner Hardy, a 24-year-old Teach For America alumnus from Severna Park, Maryland, told HuffPost that the Affordable Care Act has allowed him to get on his parents' insurance, after losing his job and health insurance at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year. "I was diagnosed with cancer in October of 2010," he told HuffPost Wednesday afternoon, "so getting on my parents' insurance has, perhaps, saved my life."

Hardy became uninsured in August of 2010, but was able to get on his parents' health insurance in mid-September. He's been undergoing chemotherapy since October, and may undergo surgery in February. Were health care reform to be repealed, Hardy said he would be unable to afford to continue treatment.

I turn 26 in June 2012, and I expect to be able to work and procure my own health insurance by that date."

They cover $100 for any blood test a year, and I have to get my blood tested every one to two weeks since I'm on a blood thinner," Harris said. "It basically covers nothing. It's all I could get. They were the only ones that accepted me because I had an operation six years ago.

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