{"id":98326,"date":"2009-12-24T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-senate-passes-healthcare-reform-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-24T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:20:00","slug":"senate-officially-passes-healthcare-reform-a-christmas-gift-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/98326","title":{"rendered":"Senate Officially Passes Healthcare Reform &#8212; A &#8216;Christmas Gift&#8217; To America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b0701b800000000001a042e\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chris dodd\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a move that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/Boston\/Politics\/2009\/12\/24\/Dodd-I-wish-Ted-Kennedy-were\/1261660073.html\">Chris Dodd called a Christmas present to America<\/a> (<em>seriously<\/em>) the Senate just officially passed a healthcare reform bill.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s on to be &#8220;reconciled&#8221; with the house version. If they iron out the kinks over abortion, and a few other things, the seemingly impossible battle may be over. Finally!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it may drag on for a bit. It was reported yesterday that the vote will slip to February, as Obama takes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/politico-healthcare-reform-slides-to-february-obama-to-focus-on-new-stimulus-2009-12\">hard pivot<\/a> on pushing for a new stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>The vote &#8212; the Senate&#8217;s last before Christmas &#8212; went down on a 60-39 party-line split.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-senate-passes-healthcare-reform-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\/politico-healthcare-reform-slides-to-february-obama-to-focus-on-new-stimulus-2009-12\">HEALTHCARE REFORM SEEN SLIPPING TO FEBRUARY, Obama To Focus On New Stimulus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/congressional-budget-office-says-dems-are-using-accounting-trick-to-claim-healthcare-savings-2009-12\">Congressional Budget Office Says Dems Are Using Accounting Trick To Claim Medicare &quot;Savings&quot;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lack-of-cbo-scoring-means-senators-will-be-voting-blind-to-beat-the-christmas-deadline-2009-12\">Senators Forced To Fly Blind To Beat The Christmas Healthcare Deadline<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/oqLOcF22OMY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that Chris Dodd called a Christmas present to America (seriously) the Senate just officially passed a healthcare reform bill. Now it&#8217;s on to be &#8220;reconciled&#8221; with the house version. If they iron out the kinks over abortion, and a few other things, the seemingly impossible battle may be over. Finally! Actually, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98326","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}