{"id":187620,"date":"2011-04-26T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/26\/vermont-senate-passes-single-payer-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:14:00","slug":"vermont-senate-passes-single-payer-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/26\/vermont-senate-passes-single-payer-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Senate Passes Single Payer Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vermont state Senate has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20110425\/NEWS03\/110425035\/Senate-gives-initial-approval-to-universal-health-care?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE\">passed the single payer healthcare bill<\/a>, and, assuming no problems in conference committee, will shortly head to the governor&#8217;s desk, where he has promised to sign it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the whole thing is dependent on getting a waiver from HHS, and I&#8217;m dubious of that bit, because Obama has shown himself to be the FIRE (<b>F<\/b>inance, <b>I<\/b>nsurance, and <b>R<\/b>eal <b>E<\/b>state) sector&#8217;s bitch, and you can be sure that the insurance companies will be trying to do whatever they can to drive a stake through the bill&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vermont state Senate has now passed the single payer healthcare bill, and, assuming no problems in conference committee, will shortly head to the governor&#8217;s desk, where he has promised to sign it. Of course, the whole thing is dependent on getting a waiver from HHS, and I&#8217;m dubious of that bit, because Obama has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1045,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187620"}],"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=187620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}