{"id":981,"date":"2009-09-29T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2009-09-29T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T20:02:26","slug":"update-senate-finance-committee-votes-against-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/981\/update-senate-finance-committee-votes-against-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Public Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the committee voted against the &#8220;moderate&#8221; Schumer version of the public option.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/29\/live-blogging-senate-finance-committee-debate-on-public-option\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">vote was 10-13<\/a>, with Senators Baucus (MT), Lincoln (AR), and Conrad (ND) voting against government-run health care.<\/p>\n<p>This looks like the death knell of the public option in the Senate, as Senator Schumer and Chairman Baucus both admit that a bill with a public option has no chance of passing the Senate with 60 votes.\u00a0 However, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/59763-reid-gives-gop-direct-warning-on-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\">some reports<\/a> that Senate Democrats might use the budget reconciliation process to push through a public option, requiring only 50 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Call your Senators and tell them to vote \u201cNo\u201d on a government-run public option that would result in anywhere from 80-120 million Americans losing their insurance.\u00a0 Here is the number: 202-224-3121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the committee voted against the &#8220;moderate&#8221; Schumer version of the public option.\u00a0 The vote was 10-13, with Senators Baucus (MT), Lincoln (AR), and Conrad (ND) voting against government-run health care. This looks like the death knell of the public option in the Senate, as Senator Schumer and Chairman Baucus both admit that a [&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":[99,209,12,210,213],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-baucus","tag-conrad","tag-health-care","tag-lincoln","tag-senate-finance-commitee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}