{"id":456954,"date":"2010-03-21T23:44:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74396"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:49:25","slug":"no-death-panels-in-this-bill-chris-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456954","title":{"rendered":"No death panels in this bill: Chris Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Murphy, a Democrat representing the 5th District, was the target last summer of much wrath from those opposed to the health care overhaul.<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>Tonight, after the House vote approving the measure, he took aim at the &#8220;lies and propaganda&#8221; that he says were spread by critics of the bill.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, 'Sans Serif', Arial; font-size: 11px; \"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-us\">&#8220;<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">Once this bill passes, all the lies and propaganda will be proved false,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;No death panels will sprout up, and the government won&#8217;t take over the health care system.&nbsp; Instead, Medicare benefits will increase, small businesses will get tax cuts to provide health care, and people with pre-existing condition will get health coverage.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \"><span lang=\"en-us\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 1.25em; \">&nbsp;<\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy, a Democrat representing the 5th District, was the target last summer of much wrath from those opposed to the health care overhaul. Tonight, after the House vote approving the measure, he took aim at the &#8220;lies and propaganda&#8221; that he says were spread by critics of the bill. &#8220;Once this bill passes, all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456954","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}