{"id":447898,"date":"2010-03-19T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/caterpillar-claims-health-care-reform-would-hit-them-for-100-million-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-19T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:50:32","slug":"caterpillar-says-health-care-reform-will-hit-it-for-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447898","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Says Health Care Reform Will Hit It For $100 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba3b9047f8b9a3b573f0100-282-234\/caterpillar.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Caterpillar\" width=\"282\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The construction equipment company Caterpillar is claiming that the current health care reform bill would hit them for a 20% increase in insurance spending next year, equaling a $100 million growth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com\/2010\/03\/caterpillar-health-care-bill-would-cost-it-100m.html\">according to Chicago Breaking Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The economic bellwether company says the changes would impact what they pay for employees and retirees, as well as their shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Caterpillar sent a letter to speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi and Republican leader John Boehner, to try to convince them to change the legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/caterpillar-claims-health-care-reform-would-hit-them-for-100-million-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\/health-care-industrys-three-favorite-lawmakers-are-all-going-to-vote-for-the-reform-bill-2010-3\">Health Care Industry&#8217;s Three Favorite Lawmakers Are All Going To Vote For The Reform Bill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/watch-how-medicare-spending-swallows-washington-dc-2010-3\">Watch How Medicare Spending Swallows Washington DC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tonights-must-see-tv-preview-president-obama-on-fox-news-2010-3\">Tonight&#8217;s Must-See TV Preview: Obama Sits In The Line Of Fire On Fox News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ddsPDNciJGU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction equipment company Caterpillar is claiming that the current health care reform bill would hit them for a 20% increase in insurance spending next year, equaling a $100 million growth, according to Chicago Breaking Business. The economic bellwether company says the changes would impact what they pay for employees and retirees, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447898","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\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}