{"id":424273,"date":"2010-03-13T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/healthcare-crunch-time-heres-why-the-next-few-days-are-going-to-be-crazy-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-13T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:19:58","slug":"healthcare-crunch-time-heres-why-the-next-few-days-are-going-to-be-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/424273","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Crunch Time: Here&#8217;s Why The Next Few Days Are Going To Be Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b94e7eb7f8b9a50255f0000-314-235\/watch-clock-stopwatch-time.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"watch clock stopwatch time\" width=\"314\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Where do we stand on healthcare reform?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a coinflip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/livepulse\/0310\/Van_Hollen_memo_lays_out_time_line_and_messaging_.html\">POLITICO<\/a> has attained a memo sent to Representatives from Rep. Christopher Van Hollen which lays out the madness that will be the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The latest CBO budget scoring &#8212; a requisite for any vote &#8212; could come any day. Probalby no later than Monday.<\/li>\n<li>The bill will go to the rules committee<\/li>\n<li>A 72-hour clock will start.<\/li>\n<li>Vote will happen as soon as Friday, possibly Saturday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is also pretty interesting, directly from memo:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Finally, I encourage you to study the final attached slide (#14) and give some thought to what your plan is post-vote, especially during Easter Work Period. If your Member is a yes, or might be a yes, I would lay the groundwork for some events to highlight the reforms that will quickly become law &ndash; no more donut hole, dependent children covered until 26, insurance access for those with pre-existing conditions, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: we&#8217;re gonna pass this thing, and then Democrats must IMMEDIATELY begin explaining their vote, and digging out from their hole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/healthcare-crunch-time-heres-why-the-next-few-days-are-going-to-be-crazy-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/havent-gotten-a-raise-in-forever-blame-our-broken-healthcare-system-2010-3\">Haven&#8217;t Gotten A Raise In Forever? Blame Our Broken Healthcare System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-delays-european-trip-as-healthcare-has-trouble-getting-over-the-finish-line-2010-3\">Obama Delays Asia Trip, As Healthcare Has Trouble Getting Over The Finish Line<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-scary-truth-about-healthcare-reform-if-it-doesnt-work-well-be-much-worse-off-2010-3\">The Scary Truth About Healthcare Reform: If It Doesn&#8217;t Work, We&#8217;ll Be Much Worse Off<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/T_OboPTAWTw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do we stand on healthcare reform? It&#8217;s still a coinflip. POLITICO has attained a memo sent to Representatives from Rep. Christopher Van Hollen which lays out the madness that will be the next few days. Here&#8217;s a few points: The latest CBO budget scoring &#8212; a requisite for any vote &#8212; could come any [&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-424273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424273","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=424273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}