{"id":91958,"date":"2009-12-21T07:03:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/senate-and-house-healthcare-bills-may-be-on-impossible-collision-course-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-21T07:03:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:03:49","slug":"senate-and-house-healthcare-bills-may-be-on-impossible-collision-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91958","title":{"rendered":"Senate And House Healthcare Bills May Be On Impossible Collision Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a last-minute weekend deal that put the Senate on the brink of passing health care reform this week, liberal and moderate Democrats remain on a collision course over the bill, as both sides dug in Sunday for the next phase of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama&rsquo;s liberal base and powerful union leaders once hoped the expected House-Senate conference would partly undo a year of retreats and compromises, with Obama weighing in to nudge the moderate Senate bill to the left.<\/p>\n<p>But the titanic struggle to lock in Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) as the 60th senator for the first key test vote early Monday morning has changed all that.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1209\/30844.html\"><strong>Read the whole story at POLITICO &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/senate-and-house-healthcare-bills-may-be-on-impossible-collision-course-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dems-get-60-in-late-night-healthcare-vote-2009-12\">Healthcare Reform Is One Step Closer To Reality After Huge 1:00 AM Vote Gets To 60<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/with-healthcare-democrats-commit-unprecedented-act-of-political-suicide-2009-12\">With Healthcare, Democrats Commit Unprecedented Act Of Political Suicide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/healthcare-stocks-on-fire-as-investors-wake-up-and-realize-healthcare-reform-is-a-giant-sellout-2009-12\">Healthcare Stocks On Fire As Investors Wake Up And Realize Healthcare &quot;Reform&quot; Is A Giant Sellout<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/MmQnjP3rE5Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a last-minute weekend deal that put the Senate on the brink of passing health care reform this week, liberal and moderate Democrats remain on a collision course over the bill, as both sides dug in Sunday for the next phase of negotiations. President Barack Obama&rsquo;s liberal base and powerful union leaders once hoped the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91958","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\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}