{"id":2224,"date":"2009-11-20T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2009-11-20T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:11:52","slug":"health-care-votes-for-sale-100-million-a-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2224\/health-care-votes-for-sale-100-million-a-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Votes for Sale: $100 Million a Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a well known fact that Majority Leader Harry Reid is scrambling to find the 60 votes necessary to move his government-run health care bill to the Senate floor.\u00a0 Indeed, Reid is doing everything in his power to “encourage” the three or four Democrats supposedly on the fence to vote “yea” tomorrow night on\u00a0the motion to proceed on the legislation.<\/p>\n

And when we say everything, we mean E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.<\/p>\n

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for \u201ccertain states recovering from a major disaster.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The section spends two pages defining which \u201cstates\u201d would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that \u201cduring the preceding 7 fiscal years\u201d have been declared a \u201cmajor disaster area.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

I am told the section applies to exactly one state:\u00a0 Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.<\/p>\n

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing [what] could be written with a single world:\u00a0 Louisiana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The price tag for this provision?\u00a0 Karl writes, \u201cAccording to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story, complete with the actual bill language, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a well known fact that Majority Leader Harry Reid is scrambling to find the 60 votes necessary to move his government-run health care bill to the Senate floor.\u00a0 Indeed, Reid is doing everything in his power to “encourage” the three or four Democrats supposedly on the fence to vote “yea” tomorrow night on\u00a0the motion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,12,526,525],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-louisiana","tag-mary-landrieu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}