Senate Oks health care measure

ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON

Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama's legacy and usher in nearuniversal medical coverage for the first time in the country's history. "We are now finally poised to deliver on the promise of real, meaningful health insurance reform that will bring additional security and stability to the American people," Obama said shortly after the Senate acted. "This will be the most important piece of social legislation since Social Security passed in the 1930s," said Ob...