Health Care Votes

I'm getting so sick of reading and hearing about health care. I just want the House to vote on it and get this over with. But I think Pelosi is still trying to bribe, strong arm and beg for votes. Otherwise they would have voted for it weeks ago. But the WHIP count, per The Hill, is 216-215. If that's the case they would be voting on it today.

The Hill's survey/tracking of House Democrats' positions on healthcare reform legislation.
UPDATED: 3/15/10 at 12:19 a.m.

House Democrats not on this list are expected to vote yes. However, some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who are not mentioned below have threatened to vote no unless the Senate's immigration-related provisions are changed.

All House Republicans are expected to vote no.

If every member votes and all GOP lawmakers vote no, the maximum amount of Democratic defections to pass a bill is 37, which would lead to a 216-215 tally.

House Minority leader John Boehner agrees with me, if the Democrats had the votes it would have been voted on long ago.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that Democrats don't have the House votes to pass the healthcare bill.

"If she had 216 votes this bill would be long gone," Boehner said of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on CNN's "State of the Union."

The Democrats "tried to pass it in September, October, November, December, January, February," Boehner said. "Guess what? They don't have the votes."

Boehner again panned the idea that President Barack Obama's healthcare summit had made the bill bipartisan, saying "he may have taken a couple of Republican ideas," but "this bill is nowhere near the middle."