{"id":180385,"date":"2017-05-04T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/04\/the-balloon-has-gone-up\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T02:22:00","slug":"the-balloon-has-gone-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/04\/the-balloon-has-gone-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balloon Has Gone Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/health-care-bill-vote.html\">passed the latest version of Trumpcare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The House on Thursday narrowly approved legislation to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act, as Republicans recovered from their earlier failures and moved a step closer to delivering on their promise to reshape American health care without mandated insurance coverage.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The vote, 217 to 213, held on President Trump\u2019s 105th day in office, is a significant step on what could be a long legislative road. Twenty Republicans bolted from their leadership to vote no. But the win keeps alive the party\u2019s dream of unwinding President Barack Obama\u2019s signature domestic achievement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The House measure faces profound uncertainty in the Senate, where a handful of Republican senators immediately rejected it, signaling that they would start work on a new version of the bill virtually from scratch.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is going to be a complete clusterf%$#.<\/p>\n<p>The only question is whether the Democrats have sufficient solidarity to make political hay from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives just passed the latest version of Trumpcare: The House on Thursday narrowly approved legislation to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act, as Republicans recovered from their earlier failures and moved a step closer to delivering on their promise to reshape American health care without mandated insurance coverage.The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,463,449,374],"class_list":["post-180385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-healthcare","tag-legislation","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}