{"id":3289,"date":"2010-02-17T19:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2010-02-17T19:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:31:29","slug":"become-a-citizen-co-sponsor-for-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/17\/become-a-citizen-co-sponsor-for-healthcare-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Citizen Co-Sponsor For Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Co-sponsor the letter\" href=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\/activities\/284\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the page at <em>Democracy For America<\/em> where you can sign on as a citizen cosponsor to the letter from Senate Democrats to Senate leader Harry Reid.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Leader Reid:<\/p>\n<p>We respectfully ask that you bring for a vote before the full Senate a public health insurance option under budget reconciliation rules.<\/p>\n<p>There are four fundamental reasons why we support this approach \u2013 its potential for billions of dollars in cost savings; the growing need to increase competition and lower costs for the consumer; the history of using reconciliation for significant pieces of health care legislation; and the continued public support for a public option.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of the letter at the <a title=\"full text of the letter\" href=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\/activities\/284\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Democracy For America<\/em><\/strong><\/a> web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the page at Democracy For America where you can sign on as a citizen cosponsor to the letter from Senate Democrats to Senate leader Harry Reid. Dear Leader Reid: We respectfully ask that you bring for a vote before the full Senate a public health insurance option under budget reconciliation rules. [&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-3289","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\/3289","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=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}