{"id":2982,"date":"2010-01-22T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:02:19","slug":"do-the-right-thing-with-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/01\/22\/do-the-right-thing-with-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Right Thing With Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Krugman Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/22\/opinion\/22krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the column by Paul Krugman.<\/p>\n<p>This is worth considering while we try to figure out what the right thing is.<\/p>\n<p>If we pass it, and the public gets angry over it, and they turn the Democrats out in 2010 and 2012, will it just get rolled back?\u00a0 Or will it be too entrenched, although hardly begun, by then?<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this posted on MardenS&#8217;s <a title=\"Article posted on MardenS's facebook page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mard101?v=feed&amp;story_fbid=280441403728\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>facebook page<\/strong><\/a> is what convinced me to post it here.\u00a0 He subsequently sent me a link to the article <a title=\"TPM Article\" href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/01\/leading-health-care-experts-tell-house-to-pass-senate-health-care-bill.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Leading Health Care Experts Tell House To Pass Senate Health Care Bill<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course\u00a0 there is this alternative possibility brought up by these experts<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abandoning health care reform&#8211;the signature political issue of this administration&#8211;would send a message that Democrats are incapable of governing and lead to massive losses in the 2010 election, possibly even in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the column by Paul Krugman. This is worth considering while we try to figure out what the right thing is. If we pass it, and the public gets angry over it, and they turn the Democrats out in 2010 and 2012, will it just get rolled back?\u00a0 Or will it be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}