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In a brief speech Sunday, Barack Obama urged the U.S. Senate to approve his project. What the House of Representatives did last night left us closer than ever to a comprehensive reform of the health system in America, he said.

After 12 hours of debate on a 2,000 pages of text, the plan lawmakers voted by 220 votes to 215 against. The plan would be implemented in 10 years (2010-2019) and would cost 900,000 million dollars to extend coverage to 36 million Americans currently without health insurance.

But so that the law can beenacted the Senate must approve it and the picture is rather more complex than Obama said.

Overall, the Senate adopts its own version, which it can diverge from passed by the House of Representatives.

Once the text be approved by the Senate, of the Houses of Parliament meet to agree on the final wording of the law. That is where the joint vote of senators and representatives.

If the reform is approved in the Senate need 60 votes of the 100 U.S. senators. Of the 100 seats, 58 belong to the Democrats and two independents who usually accompany the majority.

But in this case some moderate Democrats are not certain to vote Yes and one of the two independents, Joe Lieberman, has already expressed its opposition to the current text.

Democrats will again face Republican arguments against this reform.

the Republican Minority Leader John Boehner, the bill will end up with millions of jobs (…), going to raise taxes and make skyrocketing insurance premiums.

Only one Republican voted for the project, Anh Joseph Cao. The House also rejected a counterproposal by law Republican opposition.

To the end, Republican opposition tried to prevent approval of the project.

Meanwhile, American entrepreneurs of private medicine, meeting at the Business Roundtable, complained on Sunday the approval of this project, according to a statement posted on its Web site.

As approved, the project of the House of Representatives contains numerous provisions that threaten the health coverage they currently have 117 million Americans through the system provided by their companies.

But to its proponents, the project would allow 36 million Americans who lack health protection, access to it. If approved the Democratic bill, in total, 96% of Americans would be covered. Another objective of Obama's plan to lower health costs.

The project also provides for the creation of a social insurance system for government-run health due to come in competition with private companies.

The U.S. is the only industrialized country that does not offer its citizens a social health protection.