{"id":1531,"date":"2010-01-16T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T20:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2010-01-16T20:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T20:46:21","slug":"the_frantic_fight_for_healthca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"The Frantic Fight For Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/final-frantic-run-for-275977.html\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a>&nbsp;has a report on the progress of the proposed healthcare reform bill.&nbsp; The Democrat party this weekend is trying to rescue a flailing Senate candidate in Massachusetts while attempting to put together a healthcare bill that will be acceptable to all its members.&nbsp; The Senate race in Massachusetts should have been an easy victory, but a young, charismatic Republican candidate is currently leading the race.&nbsp; Meanwhile, Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank has opined that if the Scott Brown wins in Massachusetts, the healthcare reform bill is dead (I can only hope that is true!).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ben Nelson of Nebraska has asked that the Nebraska exception that would require the other 49 states to pay for Medicaid expansion in that sate be eliminated.&nbsp; One wonders about the status of the &#8220;Louisiana Purchase&#8221; given to Senator Mary Landrieu, or the Medicare Advantage exception given to Florida.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The real answer to healthcare reform is not included in this bill.&nbsp; The obvious starting point is tort reform, but that would involve angering the lobbyists from the American Bar Association, a major contributor to Democrat campaigns.&nbsp; Until tort reform is addressed, medical costs and medical insurance costs will continue to rise.&nbsp; The current healthcare reform bill does nothing to address that problem.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to scrap the current healthcare reform bill and start over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Atlanta Journal Constitution&nbsp;has a report on the progress of the proposed healthcare reform bill.&nbsp; The Democrat party this weekend is trying to rescue a flailing Senate candidate in Massachusetts while attempting to put together a healthcare bill that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}