In the past two weeks, Senators Harry Reid and Max Baucus, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and other higher-ups in the administration have been behind closed doors crafting a government takeover of health care.<\/p>\n
Senator Reid has been the chief architect of a plan to \u201cmeld\u201d bills from the Health Education and Labor Committee and the Finance Committee.\u00a0 Today, Reid emerged from his smoke-filled room<\/span><\/a> with legislation that includes a so-called\u00a0public option and a health care co-op.<\/p>\n This compromise between liberal Democrats and uber-liberal Democrats now heads to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which will attempt to put a price tag on the rag-tag, budget-busting piece of \u2026 legislation. The White House hopes this version of ObamaCare will be enough to garner at least 60 votes in the Senate.<\/p>\n Call Congress at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote \u201cNo\u201d<\/strong><\/span> on Senator Reid\u2019s health care \u201ccompromise.\u201d Click here<\/span><\/a> for more details on the legislation.\u00a0 Click here<\/span><\/a> for CFIF’s coverage of the health care debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the past two weeks, Senators Harry Reid and Max Baucus, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and other higher-ups in the administration have been behind closed doors crafting a government takeover of health care. Senator Reid has been the chief architect of a plan to \u201cmeld\u201d bills from the Health Education and Labor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,77,12,230,181],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-max-baucus","tag-rahm-emanuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}