{"id":484402,"date":"2010-03-29T07:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/?p=12321"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T11:47:46","slug":"republicans-look-to-senate-elections-to-reverse-healthcare-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/484402","title":{"rendered":"Republicans look to Senate, elections to reverse healthcare bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_image\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Polling+booth_1961_19689366_0_0_4000510_300.jpg\" alt=\"Republicans look to Senate, elections to reverse healthcare bill\" align=\"right\" \/>As the Senate Republicans are trying every parliamentary tool to kill the new healthcare reform bill, other conservatives are calling on Americans to &quot;fire&quot; the Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. <\/p>\n<p>Among politicians who are expressing similar views is former presidential candidate Gary Bauer who said that the passage of the healthcare bill was &quot;a tragic mistake,&quot; and warned Democrats that &quot;elections have consequences.&quot; He also stated that the only remedy for what he called a disaster was a ballot box this November. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Taxpayers Union (NTU)\u2014a nonprofit organization working for lower taxes, smaller government and economic freedom\u2014has called on the Senate to reject the bill. <\/p>\n<p>Pete Sepp, NTU vice president for policy and communications, explained that a substantive healthcare reform can be enacted by allowing insurance competition across state lines, establishing less burdensome tax treatment for insurance purchases and pushing through malpractice reforms. <\/p>\n<p>In his view, &quot;Unbridled spending, tax hikes and a more powerful, less accountable government are not the ways to lower costs and improve quality of care.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19689366-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&#038;itemid=19689366\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Senate Republicans are trying every parliamentary tool to kill the new healthcare reform bill, other conservatives are calling on Americans to &quot;fire&quot; the Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. Among politicians who are expressing similar views is former presidential candidate Gary Bauer who said that the passage of the healthcare bill was &quot;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484402","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\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}