{"id":604871,"date":"2009-11-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"1a0611c9-e124-48c2-991e-9a2c1aa6fafb"},"modified":"2009-11-11T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:30:00","slug":"bipartisan-support-emerging-on-hill-for-commission-to-control-health-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604871","title":{"rendered":"Bipartisan Support Emerging On Hill For Commission To Control Health Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/11\/bend-cost-curve-health.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> staff writer Eric Pianin reports on the growing Capitol Hill\u00a0interest in a commission to control health costs. \"The drive on Capitol Hill to create a bipartisan entitlement and tax reform commission to help 'bend the cost curve' of health spending and address mounting deficits picked up momentum yesterday, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a handful of moderate Democrats and Republicans voiced support for the effort (11\/11). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/11\/bend-cost-curve-health.aspx\" >Read entire story<\/a>.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/kkAy5X_-JAw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News staff writer Eric Pianin reports on the growing Capitol Hill\u00a0interest in a commission to control health costs. &#8220;The drive on Capitol Hill to create a bipartisan entitlement and tax reform commission to help &#8216;bend the cost curve&#8217; of health spending and address mounting deficits picked up momentum yesterday, as Senate Minority Leader [&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-604871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xlZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604871","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=604871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}