{"id":190937,"date":"2009-10-13T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/13\/baucus-piece-of-sh-healthcare-proposal-passes-finance-committee\/"},"modified":"2009-10-13T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T23:07:00","slug":"baucus-piece-of-sh-healthcare-proposal-passes-finance-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/13\/baucus-piece-of-sh-healthcare-proposal-passes-finance-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Baucus Piece of Sh%$ Healthcare Proposal Passes Finance Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/14\/health\/policy\/14health.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">14-9, with President Olympia Snowe voting with Democrats<\/a>, but she said very clearly that she is only voting this way today.<\/p>\n<p>You know if a couple of Dems had voted against the bill, like Rockefeller, who has been leading the charge for a real public option, and Wyden, who got screwed by Baucus, the measure would still have passed by 12-11, and a shot would have been fired across the bow of morons like Baucus and the Nelson twins.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, now the press is <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/62727-sens-snowe-risks-perch\">wringing its hands at the likelihood that Snowe may not get Huchison&#8217;s position as ranking member of the Commerce Committee<\/a>, when Kay Baily Hutichison leaves to run for governor against Rick &#8220;Goodhair&#8221; Perry&#8230;.My heart bleeds.  It&#8217;s clear that she has no interest in voting for real healthcare reform.<\/p>\n<p>In the least surprising news of the day, it turns that the insurance industry&#8217;s biggest bitch in Congress, Senator Joe Lieberman, is <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/13\/lieberman-baucus-bill\/\">taking the insurance companies&#8217; line<\/a>, and supporting the status quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote was 14-9, with President Olympia Snowe voting with Democrats, but she said very clearly that she is only voting this way today. You know if a couple of Dems had voted against the bill, like Rockefeller, who has been leading the charge for a real public option, and Wyden, who got screwed by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1046,1045,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190937"}],"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=190937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}