{"id":7493,"date":"2009-03-27T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T01:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7493"},"modified":"2009-03-27T20:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T01:54:59","slug":"pnhp-single-payer-health-reform-bill-introduced-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7493","title":{"rendered":"PNHP: Single-payer health reform bill introduced in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Press release<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnhp.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/sen-bernie-sanders-introduces-single-payer-bill\/\"><strong>March 26, 2009<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical  industries, Vermont\u2019s Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer health  reform bill, the American Health Security Act of 2009, in the U.S. Senate  Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The single-payer approach embodied in Sanders\u2019 new bill stands in sharp  contrast to the reform models being offered by the White House and by key  lawmakers like Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). Their  plans would preserve a central role for the private insurance industry,  sacrificing both universal coverage and cost containment during the worst  economic crisis since the Depression.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnhp.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/sen-bernie-sanders-introduces-single-payer-bill\/\">Read the release &amp; commentary<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release March 26, 2009 Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Vermont\u2019s Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer health reform bill, the American Health Security Act of 2009, in the U.S. Senate Wednesday. The single-payer approach embodied &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=7493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1WR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7493\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}