{"id":456963,"date":"2010-03-21T22:38:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74389"},"modified":"2010-03-21T23:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:52:42","slug":"joe-courtney-health-care-bill-closes-the-gap-between-haves-and-have-nots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456963","title":{"rendered":"Joe Courtney: Health care bill closes the gap between &#8220;haves and have-nots&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Courtney&#8217;s words, the bill will end the practice of &#8220;tax-paying Americans who don&#8217;t have health insurance underwritting the health benefits of members of Congress.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>UPDATE: After the vote Courtney released a statement on the bill. &#8220;P<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Sans Serif', Arial; font-size: 16px; \">assing this bill is an act of real progress toward helping families, individuals, and small businesses get access to affordable health insurance. This legislation is a major step in fixing our broken health care system and will begin to do so immediately.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, 'Sans Serif', Arial; font-size: 11px; \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" color=\"#333333\" face=\"arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; \"><font size=\"3\" color=\"black\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); \">Watch his comments on the floor of the House here:<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KB5azcrZu5k&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KB5azcrZu5k&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Courtney&#8217;s words, the bill will end the practice of &#8220;tax-paying Americans who don&#8217;t have health insurance underwritting the health benefits of members of Congress.&#8221; UPDATE: After the vote Courtney released a statement on the bill. &#8220;Passing this bill is an act of real progress toward helping families, individuals, and small businesses get access to [&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-456963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456963","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=456963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}