{"id":478,"date":"2009-09-08T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T20:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2009-09-18T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T22:45:33","slug":"baucus-plans-fines-families-up-to-3800-for-failing-to-get-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/478\/baucus-plans-fines-families-up-to-3800-for-failing-to-get-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Baucus Plan Taxes Families Up to $3,800 for Failing to Get Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/09\/08\/baucus-plan-allows-fines-failing-health-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">FoxNews.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Families who fail to get health insurance could be fined up to $3,800 under a health care reform plan proposed by a top Senate negotiator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is leading talks among the &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221; senators to hammer out a bipartisan compromise, offered what he described on Tuesday as a &#8220;framework&#8221; and not a &#8220;final product.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the detailed proposal comes just days ahead of a self-imposed Sept. 15 deadline for such a deal. Baucus is pushing his committee members hard to hammer out a bill, and those details come as strong suggestions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The framework, a copy of which was obtained by FOX News, includes what amounts to a no-choice option. It would make health insurance mandatory, like auto insurance.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/09\/08\/baucus-plan-allows-fines-failing-health-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0FoxNews.com: Families who fail to get health insurance could be fined up to $3,800 under a health care reform plan proposed by a top Senate negotiator.\u00a0 Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is leading talks among the &#8220;Gang of Six&#8221; senators to hammer out a bipartisan compromise, offered what [&hellip;]<\/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":[99,12],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-baucus","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}