{"id":680343,"date":"2010-03-02T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002762"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:05:02","slug":"obama-mulls-over-republican-tweaks-to-health-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680343","title":{"rendered":"Obama Mulls Over Republican Tweaks To Health Care Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/obamasign-thumb-350x263-37660.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A week after <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/obama-wants-to-include-coverage-for-31-million-uninsured-people-in-health-care-plan.html\" >unveiling the White House<\/a> version of the proposed National Health Care Plan, President Obama says he&#8217;s opened his ears up to a handful of suggestions from the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent to Congressional leaders today, Obama said he&#8217;s looking into four different GOP ideas bounced around at last Thursday&#8217;s televised health care summit:<\/p>\n<p>1. Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn&#8217;s proposal to increase the use of undercover investigators posing as patients to expose abuse and fraud in federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>2. Bigger pilot programs on possible changes to the rules governing medical malpractice lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>3. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa&#8217;s suggestion that there be higher Medicaid reimbursements for doctors. <\/p>\n<p>4. Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso&#8217;s suggestion to expand use of health savings accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After decades of trying, we&#8217;re closer than we&#8217;ve ever been to making health insurance reform a reality,&#8221; writes Obama. &#8220;I also believe that piecemeal reform is not the best way to effectively reduce premiums, end the exclusion of people with pre-existing conditions or offer Americans the security of knowing that they will never lose coverage, even if they lose or change jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/03\/obama-to-include-republican-ideas-in-revamped-health-care-bill\/1\" >Obama explores Republican ideas for revised health care bill<\/a> [USA Today]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after unveiling the White House version of the proposed National Health Care Plan, President Obama says he&#8217;s opened his ears up to a handful of suggestions from the Republicans. In a letter sent to Congressional leaders today, Obama said he&#8217;s looking into four different GOP ideas bounced around at last Thursday&#8217;s televised health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"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-680343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QZh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680343","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\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}