{"id":442772,"date":"2010-03-18T11:13:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79602"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:13:18","slug":"selling-health-care-reform-as-a-deficit-reducer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/442772","title":{"rendered":"Selling Health Care Reform as a Deficit Reducer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Different week, different sales pitch from Democratic leaders about why heath care reform is worth supporting. The Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Thursday that the legislation is “the largest deficit-reduction bill that members will have a chance to vote on” in most of their congressional careers — a key enticement for a bloc of undecided Democratic lawmakers who fear the legislation would run up the mounting federal deficit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Though the Congressional Budget Office has yet to release the official score, Democratic leaders are saying<\/a> today that the bill will cost $940 billion over the next decade, offset by a series of tax hikes and spending cuts that will reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the same span.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their reason for emphasizing the deficit side of things is clear: There are more than 30 House Democrats considered to be on the fence about whether to support the bill, which will require 216 votes to pass the House. Most of those lawmakers represent conservative districts where criticisms of the nation’s $1.4 trillion deficit run high. But if they can go back home and say they supported reforms that expanded coverage to millions of uninsured folks (which most Americans support) and<\/em> reduced the deficit by more than $100 billion, well, that might not be such a burden come November.<\/p>\n

Democrats are expected<\/a> to release the full details of the proposal today at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Different week, different sales pitch from Democratic leaders about why heath care reform is worth supporting. The Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Thursday that the legislation is “the largest deficit-reduction bill that members will have a chance to vote on” in most of their congressional careers — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442772","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\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}