{"id":700889,"date":"2010-03-25T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15032"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:45:11","slug":"just-the-beginning-of-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700889","title":{"rendered":"Just The Beginning of Health Care Reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in Iowa City, Iowa today, President Obama was interrupted by an audience member who was upset because a government-run health insurance &#8220;public&#8221; option wasn&#8217;t included in the new law.<\/p>\n<p>The President went off of his prepared remarks and told the attendee that he and Democratic leaders &#8220;couldn&#8217;t get it through Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama went on to say that this law is &#8220;a historic step&#8221; that &#8220;enshrines the principle that everyone gets health care coverage in this country, every single person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And while the President insisted that the new law is &#8220;middle of the road,&#8221; he told the applauding crowd that it &#8220;moves us in the direction of universal health care coverage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in Iowa City, Iowa today, President Obama was interrupted by an audience member who was upset because a government-run health insurance &#8220;public&#8221; option wasn&#8217;t included in the new law. The President went off of his prepared remarks and told the attendee that he and Democratic leaders &#8220;couldn&#8217;t get it through Congress.&#8221; Mr Obama went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3756,"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-700889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WkF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700889","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\/3756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802519,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700889\/revisions\/802519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}