{"id":443147,"date":"2010-03-18T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73618"},"modified":"2010-03-18T12:28:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:28:49","slug":"liveblogging-the-pelosi-presser-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443147","title":{"rendered":"Liveblogging the Pelosi Presser on Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46201\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46201\" title=\"Pelosi w microphones\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2009\/10\/Pelosi-w-microphones-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (photo by Orin)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here we go.  The Speaker is announcing the new health care bill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well numbers are worth a lot too.&#8221;  She&#8217;s reiterating the CBO numbers.  Bill will be online a little bit later today.<\/p>\n<p>Two reasons to do health care reform: 1) expand coverage, 2) reduce the deficit (health care reform is entitlement reform).<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi offers the mike to a doctor and small business owner, Ed Morris, to tell his personal story.<\/p>\n<p>Steny Hoyer is up now, reiterates that this bill is the biggest deficit reduction bill since the 1993 Clinton budget. Responds to query of what the bill does for individuals. Health care has the highest costs in the world. Harmful to small businesses, who see competition from foreign companies with lower health care costs.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-73618\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/cbo\/\" rel=\"tag\">CBO<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/health-care\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health care<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/steny-hoyer\/\" rel=\"tag\">Steny Hoyer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=73618&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_73618\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (photo by Orin) Here we go. The Speaker is announcing the new health care bill. &#8220;They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well numbers are worth a lot too.&#8221; She&#8217;s reiterating the CBO numbers. Bill will be online a little bit later today. Two reasons to do health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443147","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\/4406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}