{"id":604443,"date":"2009-11-07T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"6207 at http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov"},"modified":"2009-11-07T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T22:33:21","slug":"history-the-house-debates-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604443","title":{"rendered":"History: The House Debates Health Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"embed\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_full\/audio-video\/video_thumbnail\/POTUS120.jpg?resize=560%2C290\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_full\" width=\"560\" height=\"290\" \/>  <p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/photos-and-video\/video\/president-obama-historical-house-health-reform-vote\">Click here to see the video.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Today the House reaches another major milestone in the effort to pass health insurance reform, and effort decades in the making.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Predictably, opponents of reform are taking their misleading claims to new heights.&nbsp; For example, they claim that CEA Chair Christina Romer has said that reform would cost millions of jobs.&nbsp; This is flatly false, as demonstrated by the independent watchdog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2009\/sep\/08\/john-carter\/texas-lawmaker-latest-republican-say-health-bill-w\/\">Politifact<\/a> and Romer's own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/CEA-Response-to-GOP-Jobs-Claim-11-07-09.pdf\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of reform have also manufactured a chart attempting to depict reform as some sort of maze of bureaucracy.&nbsp; This is also false.&nbsp; Here is a chart that accurately reflects the President's plan:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"453\" alt=\"Stable and secure health care for all Americans\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/hr-img.jpg?resize=600%2C453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n#content blockquote p {margin: 0 0 20px;}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to see the video. Today the House reaches another major milestone in the effort to pass health insurance reform, and effort decades in the making.&nbsp; Predictably, opponents of reform are taking their misleading claims to new heights.&nbsp; For example, they claim that CEA Chair Christina Romer has said that reform would cost millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xf5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}