{"id":2287,"date":"2009-04-29T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2009-04-29T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:36:23","slug":"impasse_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"Impasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota House and Senate have passed <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/04\/27\/senate_approves_cuts_to_health_and_welfare\/\">budget bills that slash health care spending<\/a>. Nursing homes, hospitals, home care agencies, and other health care providers are all likely to see rate reductions. And it&#8217;s likely that the final version of the bill will be vetoed because both the House and Senate rely on tax increases to avoid deeper cuts that would result in tens of thousands losing all health coverage. <\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re seeing in Minnesota is a precursor to the larger national debate coming this summer on the proper role of government in providing health care. Pawlenty and his allies argue that health care spending is taking a bigger bite out of the budget pie every year. Democrats argue that shrinking public health insurance rolls will only increase costs for everyone and push people deeper into poverty, particularly in small towns where nursing homes are one of the largest local employers. Unfortunately, there are no good solutions and both sides know it. Expect a lot of posturing and bluster as the Legislature and governor try to figure where to draw their lines in the sand. <\/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=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota House and Senate have passed budget bills that slash health care spending. Nursing homes, hospitals, home care agencies, and other health care providers are all likely to see rate reductions. And it&#8217;s likely that the final version of the bill will be vetoed because both the House and Senate rely on tax increases <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2287' 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-2287","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-AT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}