{"id":12719,"date":"2009-07-16T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2009-07-16T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:35:32","slug":"health-care-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12719","title":{"rendered":"Health care in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Democrat Mike Ross warns today that there will have to be significant changes to the Obama health plan before it&#8217;ll get out of his committee, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/07\/16\/house-dems-votes-health\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., who chairs the Blue Dogs&#8217; health care task force, said the group would need to see significant changes to protect small businesses and rural providers and contain costs before it could sign on. &#8220;We cannot support the current bill,&#8221; he said.  The Energy and Commerce Committee&#8217;s Blue Dogs met Wednesday to consider what amendments they would offer, and the panel scheduled vote sessions daily through next Wednesday in what promised to be an arduous process to reach consensus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The key to defeating this whole plan doesn&#8217;t pivot on the Republicans, it rests on how painful it&#8217;ll be next year for Democrats in their own districts. The Republicans have made themselves irrelevant to the politics of this thing, so it&#8217;s up to people in Democrat-held districts to phone and mail.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if we&#8217;re going to continue to be bogged down in ancillary BS&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Democrat Mike Ross warns today that there will have to be significant changes to the &hellip; <a title=\"Health care in trouble\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12719\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health care in trouble<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liberals-suck","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}