{"id":2165,"date":"2009-11-18T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:42:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:42:48","slug":"predicting-the-senate-health-care-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2165\/predicting-the-senate-health-care-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the Senate Health Care Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Congressional Budget Office set to release its cost estimate of the Senate\u2019s version of health care \u201creform\u201d sometime this week, taxpayers continue to speculate over the whip count and the prospects for ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.cq.com\/congress\/whip_count\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Congress.org<\/span><\/a> has set up a virtual prediction market for the health care bill in the Senate.\u00a0  <a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.cq.com\/congress\/whip_count\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click here<\/span><\/a> to make your predictions of ObamaCare\u2019s future.\u00a0 (Sorry, you can&#8217;t make any money off of your predictions.)<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s all hope that President Obama and leaders in Congress have a sudden change of heart and decide that more massive government <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/images\/stories\/news\/2009\/november\/weekend111309\/cmsactuarynumbers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">won\u2019t bring down health costs<\/span><\/a> or reduce the federal deficit.<\/p>\n<p>My prediction was 55-45 for final passage, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the bill will survive a filibuster attempt.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Wire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Congressional Budget Office set to release its cost estimate of the Senate\u2019s version of health care \u201creform\u201d sometime this week, taxpayers continue to speculate over the whip count and the prospects for ObamaCare. Congress.org has set up a virtual prediction market for the health care bill in the Senate.\u00a0 Click here to make [&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":[84,40,12,14],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-health-care","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}