{"id":1639,"date":"2009-10-27T14:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2009-10-27T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T19:31:49","slug":"markets-down-on-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1639\/markets-down-on-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets Down on &#8216;Public Option&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/data.intrade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">intrade.com<\/span><\/a>, the online prediction market, Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) announcement of a modified public option put the chances of ObamaCare\u2019s passage on the ropes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, markets gave the public option a 30 percent chance of passing before December 31, 2009.\u00a0  After Reid\u2019s announcement of a \u201ccompromise\u201d bill, the odds are <a href=\"http:\/\/data.intrade.com\/graphing\/jsp\/closingPricesForm.jsp?tradeURL=https:\/\/www.intrade.com&amp;contractId=683800\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now just 7.1 percent<\/span><\/a>, according to intrade.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope the market is right, as it usually is in all aspects of life.\u00a0  Call your Senator at 202-224-3121 and tell them to oppose Senator Reid\u2019s pathetic attempt at health care \u201creform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to intrade.com, the online prediction market, Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) announcement of a modified public option put the chances of ObamaCare\u2019s passage on the ropes. Earlier this month, markets gave the public option a 30 percent chance of passing before December 31, 2009.\u00a0 After Reid\u2019s announcement of a \u201ccompromise\u201d bill, the odds are now just [&hellip;]<\/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":[77,12,35,43],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-obamacare","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}