{"id":11563,"date":"2009-12-18T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2009-12-18T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:53:54","slug":"senators-battle-over-healthcare-legislation-even-as-liberals-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/12\/18\/senators-battle-over-healthcare-legislation-even-as-liberals-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Battle Over Healthcare Legislation Even as Liberals Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-121809\/2009_12_18_shaffer.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-121809\/2009_12_18_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/ap\/20091216\/capt.16fa816848014c6684d80a6b6745b70f.health_care_overhaul_dean_nybz106.jpg?x=229&#038;y=345&#038;q=85&#038;sig=UmSkC4YgpTU4eei1Ttehfg--\" alt=\"shaffer\" \/>A battle between liberals has broken out in the Senate over healthcare. Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee has come out in recent days urging a no vote on the bill being considered in the Senate saying that it is too geared in favor of insurance companies in it&#8217;s current incarnation. He is being joined in his protest of the bill by the Service Employees International Union, one of the most powerful unions in Washington who strongly supported Obama&#8217;s Presidential campaign. At heart is the dropping of a so-called publicly funded insurance option, meant as a consolation prize for advocates of single-payer healthcare. With the public option dropped, there seems little left resembling a reform of the current healthcare system. But former President Bill Clinton claims that there is enough good in the bill to warrant passage. A recent attempt by Republican Senators to postpone the healthcare vote until after Christmas, by snubbing a defense spending bill, failed. Democratic Senators are working hard to appease Bill Nelson, a fellow Democratic senator from Florida, who has insisted that he wants strong restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion procedures. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ellen R. Shaffer, Co-Director at the Center for Policy Analysis here in California<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A battle between liberals has broken out in the Senate over healthcare. Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee has come out in recent days urging a no vote on the bill being considered in the Senate saying that it is too geared in favor of insurance companies in it&#8217;s current incarnation. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}