Health Care Reform Senate Votes to Move Health Care Bill to Floor for Debate by Rosemary Piser on November 22, 2009 Rosemary Piser Author More in Health Care Reform: Governor Newsom Announces Affordable CalRx® Insulin, $11 a Pen, Will Soon Be Available for Purchase October 19, 2025 How the Government Shutdown Is Hitting the Health Care System – and What the Battle Over ACA Subsidies Means October 4, 2025 Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress. November 23, 2024 Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2009. By a vote of 60 to 39, the U.S. Senate has voted to move the health care bill to the floor for debate. Votes, as anticipated were along party lines.