{"id":676585,"date":"2010-02-26T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/statement-president-house-passage-health-insurance-industry-fair-com-40043\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:51:22","slug":"statement-by-the-president-on-house-passage-of-the-health-insurance-industry-fair-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/676585","title":{"rendered":"Statement by the President on House Passage of the Health Insurance Industry Fair Com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.24.10 03:15 PM<\/p>\n<p>&amp;ldquo;I applaud the House of Representatives for passing the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act on a strong bipartisan vote today. This bill will help ensure that insurers abide by common-sense rules that prevent bid-rigging, price-fixing, and other practices that drive up health care costs for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Repealing the antitrust exemption for health insurers is an important step toward achieving reform that gives families and business owners greater control over their health care. I look forward to meeting with congressional leaders tomorrow to continue this critical discussion.&amp;rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/statement-president-house-passage-health-insurance-industry-fair-competition-act\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.24.10 03:15 PM &amp;ldquo;I applaud the House of Representatives for passing the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act on a strong bipartisan vote today. This bill will help ensure that insurers abide by common-sense rules that prevent bid-rigging, price-fixing, and other practices that drive up health care costs for the American people. Repealing the antitrust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-676585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Q0F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676585","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\/3489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}