Legacy: Health Care Reform Passes the House of Representatives

This is a repalcement of the HR bill passing, uptimed by 10 minutes. I got it wrong the first time, but the error does not significantly change the chart.

Part One of a Few. I will post Len Wallick’s daily astrology piece at about noon Eastern Time. Fe Bongolan is in the kitchen cooking up a special edition of Fe-911. Stay tuned…

Good morning. Well, we finally have a chart to look at: a year of ‘debate’ (vicious infighting complete with kicking, biting and claws) is basically over, and the United States has entered a new era: one where our government does something besides take things from its people and drop bombs.

Let’s see what we can learn. As most know, the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s version of what is being called health care reform. Other coverage will get into the specifics; I will stick to the astrology for now, and cover it in a few parts today and tomorrow. Let’s get things rolling with an overview of the chart.

My first inclination was to call this the chart for the National Insurance and Gambling Exotic Instrument Reform Act of 2010. On its face, it looks like a chart about hedge funds. In truth it’s about the biggest hedge fund of them all — the health gambling racquet. One in six dollars transacted in our American economy changes hands doing something like paying for an MRI or chemotherapy or spleen removal or dialysis: what we call health care. One in six — probably more. It’s been like this for a generation; I know because I covered the medical industry (specifically, the AMA) in the late 1980s; it was an amazing fact then and it’s amazing now.

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