{"id":472107,"date":"2010-03-25T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80542"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:52:12","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-campaign-for-health-care-reform-comes-full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472107","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Campaign for Health Care Reform Comes Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was in Iowa City that then-candidate Barack Obama first unveiled his health care reform plans, back in May 2007. Now, having signed a landmark reform bill, he&#8217;s back in Iowa City, still trying to persuade the public of the importance of reform. The Iowa Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/30682\/obama%E2%80%99s-promise-for-health-care-reform-comes-full-circle\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter a year of debate and a century of trying, after so many of you  shared your stories and your heartaches and your hopes, that promise was  finally fulfilled,\u201d Obama told more than 3,000 people packed into the  University of Iowa Field House gymnasium, located just around the corner  from where he initially made his promise nearly three years ago. \u201cAnd  today, health insurance reform is the law of the land.\u201d [&#8230;]<span id=\"more-80542\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last year, there\u2019s been a lot of misinformation spread about  health care reform. There has been plenty of fear-mongering and  overheated rhetoric,\u201d Obama said. \u201cAnd if you turn on the news, you\u2019ll  see that those same folks are still shouting about how the world will  end because we passed this bill. This is not an exaggeration. Leaders of  the Republican Party have actually been calling the passage of this  bill \u2018Armageddon.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/30682\/obama%E2%80%99s-promise-for-health-care-reform-comes-full-circle\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was in Iowa City that then-candidate Barack Obama first unveiled his health care reform plans, back in May 2007. Now, having signed a landmark reform bill, he&#8217;s back in Iowa City, still trying to persuade the public of the importance of reform. The Iowa Independent reports: \u201cAfter a year of debate and a century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472107","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\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}