{"id":654672,"date":"2010-02-04T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32206"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:16:37","slug":"backroom-deals-continue-on-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654672","title":{"rendered":"Backroom deals continue on health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>An article in <em>Politico<\/em> today reminds us that the health care fight is far from over, as politicians are still wrangling for special deals.&nbsp; The piece highlights how legislators only view deals as &#8220;politics as usual&#8221; when it&#8217;s some <em>other<\/em> representative cutting out his share.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It is very clear from the process that took place in the final days of the bill that Americans are disturbed about the process,&#8221; said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). &#8220;I believe it would be important for us to take out the egregious items.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean he might forfeit the money for Massachusetts?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all. Kerry argued the funding was completely legitimate because Massachusetts has already used significant state resources to extend benefits beyond what the current federal Medicaid rules require&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/32499.html\" >Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes An article in Politico today reminds us that the health care fight is far from over, as politicians are still wrangling for special deals.&nbsp; The piece highlights how legislators only view deals as &#8220;politics as usual&#8221; when it&#8217;s some other representative cutting out his share. &#8220;It is very clear from the process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-654672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kje","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654672","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\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756251,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654672\/revisions\/756251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}