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It appears that individual health insurance reform will be waiting until September 15th, instead of passing through the Senate in August, as had originally been planned.

Which is, according to U.S.News and World Report, a good thing. After all, major individual health insurance reform on a nation-wide scale deserves more than 2 days of reading. And, with the latest bill totaling more than 1,000 pages long, most senators wouldn't be able to read it by the previous deadline anyway.

Perhaps they're all remembering what happened with the Patriot Act, another lengthy bill passed in record time, that later came back to haunt those who agreed to it without knowing what they were really agreeing to.

Regardless, house Democrats are already suggesting that if Republicans can't finish the bill by the new deadline, they'll find a way to pass it without bipartisan support.

But with so many differing opinions on both sides of the aisle, what type of individual health insurance plan we really end up with remains to be seen. Still, it's good to see some kind of change on the horizon, and hopefully there will be some kind of financial and medical relief coming for those millions of uninsured Americans now waiting to see what happens on September 15th.