A transformation of the nation’s health-care sector just took one step closer to political reality: On Saturday Senate Democrats muscled together enough votes (60-39) to send a health-care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate after Thanksgiving.Two major Senate votes remain: one to conclude the debate process and one to pass the actual bill both demanding 60 vote thresholds.The big sticking points says Arthur Henderson an analyst at Jefferies who covers the health-care sector include abortion tax increases Medicare cuts and the hotly debated public option.In a research note released this morning Henderson wrote that President Barack Obama ...

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The health-care sector is huge here in the US accounting for 16% of GDP and politicians have decided the system demands a radical overhaul.So on Saturday as you kicked back beers at the local bar your policymakers passed sweeping health care reform by a 220-215 margin.The Wall Street Journal provides us with a CliffsNotes version of the House bill: The measure spends $1.05 trillion over a decade to provide health insurance to an additional 36 million Americans it creates a new public insurance plan by 2013 and it requires most Americans to carry insurance.The prospect of health-care reform has ...