{"id":854,"date":"2010-05-01T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2015-10-19T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:33:37","slug":"was-this-what-you-had-in-mind-mada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Was this what you had in mind, Madam Speaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy Pelosi famously declared that they’d have to pass the health care bill to find out what’s in the bill. Well, now we’re finding out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Turns out ObamaCare means if you like your health plan you can lose it. The president didn’t have to actually strong-arm companies into dumping their employee health insurance because his bill carried financial incentives to virtually guarantee that result,” [Rep. Joe] Barton said. “But something’s very wrong when, like AT&T found out, paying $600 million in penalties will allow you to stop paying $2.4 billion for insurance, leaving both workers and taxpayers stuck. I suppose we can’t know for some years how many thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of workers will lose their company insurance because of health care reform, but I know that it will be a breach of faith for most of them and a tragedy for some.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Pelosi famously declared that they’d have to pass the health care bill to find out what’s in the bill. Well, now we’re finding out: “Turns out ObamaCare means if you like your health plan you can lose it. The president didn’t have to actually strong-arm companies into dumping their employee health insurance because his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6R3Ax-dM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1198,"url":"https:\/\/rjaharrison.com\/?p=1198","url_meta":{"origin":854,"position":0},"title":"Further thoughts on the health care deform bill","author":"Rob Harrison","date":"28 July 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As I noted in the previous post, there\u2019s been a real lack of active leadership from the president on the whole issue of health care \u201creform,\u201d which has been quite frustrating to his party. 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