{"id":3313,"date":"2010-01-21T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2010-01-21T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:55:16","slug":"pelosi-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-the-votes-for-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3313\/pelosi-we-don%e2%80%99t-have-the-votes-for-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi: We Don\u2019t Have the Votes to Pass Senate Health Care Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any Democratic pipe dream about quick passage of their health care plan was shot down today.\u00a0 Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/Z1wz\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">announced that<\/span><\/a> the House simply doesn\u2019t have the votes to pass the Senate version of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>This means the bill will not likely be on the President\u2019s desk by his <del datetime=\"2010-01-21T17:28:52+00:00\">second<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-01-21T17:28:52+00:00\">third<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-01-21T17:28:52+00:00\">fourth<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-01-21T17:28:52+00:00\">fifth<\/del> <del datetime=\"2010-01-21T17:28:52+00:00\">sixth<\/del> deadline, which was supposed to be the State of the Union.\u00a0 The House will need to make changes and then pass those amendments on to the Senate, with their reduced majority.<\/p>\n<p>The path for health care now follows moderates in the House and Senate.\u00a0 After hearing the Massachusetts wakeup call loud and clear (presumably), it will be moderates that decide the fate of the bill.\u00a0 It will be much harder for partisans in leadership to whip members when the political environment is so hostile for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>The best case scenario (worst case for taxpayers) is that Democrats cobble together enough votes to pass a shell of health care reform: expand Medicare and Medicaid, and ban discrimination against pre-existing conditions.\u00a0 There doesn\u2019t appear to be enough votes for a government-run public option or an individual mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any Democratic pipe dream about quick passage of their health care plan was shot down today.\u00a0 Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House simply doesn\u2019t have the votes to pass the Senate version of the bill. This means the bill will not likely be on the President\u2019s desk by his second third fourth fifth sixth [&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":[12,159,111,43],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-massachusetts","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","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=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}