{"id":2283,"date":"2009-04-25T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2009-04-25T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T17:41:07","slug":"insurance_polic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the election, 2009 looked like the year health care reform would be achieved. But barring a complete breakdown in the political process, the odds of passing a health care bill have been elevated from pretty good to great. Congressional Democrats agreed yesterday to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/25\/us\/politics\/25budget.html?_r=1&amp;hpw\">use reconciliation to protect health care legislation from a Republican filibuster<\/a>. Reconciliation can be thought of as the big beefy guy who will be standing behind the Democrats during negotiations with the Republicans. If the bill can&#8217;t get 60 votes, reconciliation will allow it to pass with a simple majority. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans argue that health care reform is too important to be passed by a simple majority and that such parliamentarian tactics will only provoke partisan bickering. But I would argue just the opposite. This issue is too important to let it be held hostage by a party that has shown so little interest in striking any sort of compromise with the president. A health care bill will be passed, with or without Republican support. Given that reality, perhaps Republicans will decide it&#8217;s in their best interest to be collaborators rather than taking their ball and going home. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the election, 2009 looked like the year health care reform would be achieved. But barring a complete breakdown in the political process, the odds of passing a health care bill have been elevated from pretty good to great. Congressional Democrats agreed yesterday to use reconciliation to protect health care legislation from a Republican <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2283' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}