HEALTH

House Healthcare Vote-Counting

Updated: February 7, 2011 | 1:11 p.m.
March 16, 2010

If every current House Democrat who voted for healthcare reform last November does so again, leadership will have exactly the 216 votes needed for passage. But the absence of anti-abortion language favored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and blowback from concerned seniors could cost Democrats some of those votes. Here is a look at how seniors and Stupak's anti-abortion amendment factors into Democrats' previous vote on healthcare reform.

This article appeared in the Saturday, March 20, 2010 edition of National Journal Daily.

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