{"id":2281,"date":"2009-11-23T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2009-11-23T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T16:37:33","slug":"what-was-in-that-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2281\/what-was-in-that-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was in That Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately for taxpayers, patients and health care professionals, the Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00353\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">successfully invoked cloture<\/span><\/a> on its health care plan last Saturday.\u00a0 With only 60 votes needed to proceed to consideration of the bill, Harry Reid got his 60 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Since few Senators likely read the entire 2,074-page piece of legislation, here\u2019s a quick breakdown, <a href=\"http:\/\/coburn.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&amp;FileStore_id=25548c11-52a7-4498-bd01-c52d1669ab44\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">courtesy of Senator Coburn<\/span><\/a>, of what was in the bill.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 \u2013 new taxes created in the bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>70 \u2013 government programs created in the bill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>3,607 \u2013 uses of the word &#8220;shall.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>24 million \u2013 patients left without health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$494 billion \u2013 in new tax hikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.5 trillion \u2013 total cost of the legislation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately for taxpayers, patients and health care professionals, the Senate successfully invoked cloture on its health care plan last Saturday.\u00a0 With only 60 votes needed to proceed to consideration of the bill, Harry Reid got his 60 votes. Since few Senators likely read the entire 2,074-page piece of legislation, here\u2019s a quick breakdown, courtesy of [&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":[77,12,38],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-harry-reid","tag-health-care","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","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=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}