{"id":293839,"date":"2010-02-08T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/02\/08\/obamas-call-for-bipartisan-discussion-passes-for-health-news\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:25:15","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-call-for-bipartisan-discussion-passes-for-health-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293839","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Call for Bipartisan Discussion Passes for Health News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HealthHard to believe, but it was just weeks ago that everybody was busy hashing out the last-minute nitty gritty<\/a> of what the Dems’ final health-care bill would look like.<\/p>\n

Now, in a 59-41 world<\/a>, President Obama’s call for a televised bipartisan discussion of health care — a proposal that’s reasonable enough, but pretty dull and process-y — passes for big news on the health-care overhaul front.<\/p>\n

Indeed, as the WSJ notes<\/a>, “it’s unclear how the bipartisan health-care event will move the issue ahead in Congress, as the parties have very different ideas about how to reshape the system … .” <\/p>\n

Obama made the suggestion in an interview with Katie Couric<\/a> broadcast yesterday before the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

In a statement, House Republican Leader John Boehner said<\/a>, “Obviously, I am pleased that the White House finally seems interested in a real, bipartisan conversation on health care.”<\/p>\n

Boehner criticized the House and Senate health-care bills and called on Dems to start over. A White House aide told the WSJ the president doesn’t intend to start from scratch.<\/p>\n

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Hard to believe, but it was just weeks ago that everybody was busy hashing out the last-minute nitty gritty of what the Dems’ final health-care bill would look like. Now, in a 59-41 world, President Obama’s call for a televised bipartisan discussion of health care — a proposal that’s reasonable enough, but pretty dull and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}