{"id":462234,"date":"2010-03-23T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80107"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T16:17:56","slug":"health-reform-is-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462234","title":{"rendered":"Health Reform Is Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, President Obama this morning signed into law the Senate&#8217;s package of health care reforms, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/22\/health-reform-bill-summary_n_508315.html\" >a number of which<\/a> will go into effect this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, after almost a century of trying, today, after over a year of debate, today, after all the votes have been tallied, health care insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America,&#8221; Obama said to a standing ovation from the large group of Democratic lawmakers gathered at the White House for the signing.<span id=\"more-80107\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Senate today will <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80079\/senate-health-care-debate-the-week-ahead\" >begin debating<\/a> a\u00a0separate reform package that tweaks the original Senate bill. Leaders from both parties expect that measure to clear the Senate by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/79923\/what-if-reconciliation-fails\" >Here&#8217;s<\/a> what happens, though, if it doesn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, President Obama this morning signed into law the Senate&#8217;s package of health care reforms, a number of which will go into effect this year. &#8220;Today, after almost a century of trying, today, after over a year of debate, today, after all the votes have been tallied, health care insurance reform becomes law in [&hellip;]<\/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-462234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462234","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=462234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}