{"id":1690,"date":"2010-03-14T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2010-03-14T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:06:51","slug":"some_of_the_problems_in_passin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Some Of The Problems In Passing Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9EDQTD81&amp;show_article=1\">Breitbart.com<\/a>&nbsp;reported on one of the problem areas in passing healthcare reform&#8211;the President and the Senators disagree on the basic bill.&nbsp; The President has stated that he wants specific projects for specific states taken out of the bill; the Senators want to leave the extra money for individual states in the bill.&nbsp; The Senate approved healthcare reform bill sends $600 million to Vermont in the next ten years for additional Medicaid payments, and almost as much to Massachusetts.&nbsp;Connecticut gets $100 million to build a hospital and Florida residents get to keep Medicare Adavantage insurance.&nbsp; There are also specific extra benefits for Montana, West Virginia, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the President&#8217;s opposition to the provisions of the bill regarding specific states is the appearance&#8211;back room deals have become very unpopular and many of the provisions in this bill look like payments for votes.&nbsp; The exception that the President is willing to leave in is the $300 million for Louisiana.&nbsp; President Obama regards that as a necessary expense to rebuild after hurricane Katrina.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I really hope this bill does not pass, but if it does, the amount of money it will cost every taxpayer is almost unimaginable.&nbsp; It will not lower health insurance payments or healthcare costs&#8211;the only thing this bill will reduce is the quality of healthcare in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Breitbart.com&nbsp;reported on one of the problem areas in passing healthcare reform&#8211;the President and the Senators disagree on the basic bill.&nbsp; The President has stated that he wants specific projects for specific states taken out of the bill; the Senators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1690\">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-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}