{"id":390209,"date":"2010-03-04T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/obamacare-roundup-3-4-10-news-quotes-observations-40371\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:27:19","slug":"obamacare-roundup-3-4-10-news-quotes-and-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390209","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare roundup: 3-4-10 &#8211; news, quotes and observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.04.10 07:54 AM posted by Drew McKissick<\/p>\n<p>Some of the latest from the ongoing debate over ObamaCare&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4044\/4405000696_abe15dcdba.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>Obama orders full speed ahead<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/04\/obama-throws-down-gauntlet-on-health-care\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" >Washington Times<\/a> op-ed has a nice paragraph that summarizes fairly simply why the plan needs to be defeated.<\/p>\n<p><i>At stake is the biggest policy initiative of the year-old Obama presidency, a rewrite of the nation&#8217;s health care system that would trim hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, expand Medicaid, mandate that every American join a plan and rewrite rules telling insurance companies how they can operate. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p><b>Are Democrats whistling past the graveyard on ObamaCare?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Obama-wants-Democrats-to-keep-trying-on-stalled-health-plan-86255667.html\" >Julie Mason<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Republicans warned they will use Obama&#8217;s reliance on parliamentary moves to push the unpopular bill through as a top campaign issue in the fall. <b>Democrats are hoping Americans ignore rhetoric about voting procedures in Congress and credit them with passing something.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;I don&#8217;t know how this plays politically, but I know it&#8217;s right,&quot; Obama said of his latest proposal.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/obamacare_roundup_3410_news_quotes_and_observations\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/obamacare_roundup_3410_news_quotes_and_observations\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/o&#8230;d_observations<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.04.10 07:54 AM posted by Drew McKissick Some of the latest from the ongoing debate over ObamaCare&#8230; Obama orders full speed ahead The Washington Times op-ed has a nice paragraph that summarizes fairly simply why the plan needs to be defeated. At stake is the biggest policy initiative of the year-old Obama presidency, a rewrite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390209","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}