{"id":2325,"date":"2009-06-04T20:41:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2009-06-04T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:41:59","slug":"winning_hearts_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Winning Hearts And Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Senator Baucus, the health bill that eventually clears the Senate will probably include a public plan option<\/a>. Wow, so this is what newfound political clout<\/a> can accomplish. Considering that Baucus was initially cool to the idea of a public plan, this is a big deal. Of course, nobody has actually seen a bill yet and plenty of political shenanigans could still occur. We could see a neutered public plan that offers only bare bones coverage. Or we could see some kind of “trigger” nonsense<\/a>, where a public plan remains inactive unless private insurers fail to provide affordable coverage after a vaguely defined length of time. <\/p>\n

There are still a thousand ways that a public plan option could be excluded from a final bill or watered down, but Baucus’s statement is a hopeful sign that Obama’s promised health reform will be truly progressive.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Senator Baucus, the health bill that eventually clears the Senate will probably include a public plan option. Wow, so this is what newfound political clout can accomplish. Considering that Baucus was initially cool to the idea of a public plan, this is a big deal. Of course, nobody has actually seen a bill […]<\/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-2325","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-Bv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}