{"id":220,"date":"2009-09-24T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/take-action-now-on-u-s-health-care-reform-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:12","slug":"take-action-now-on-u-s-health-care-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/take-action-now-on-u-s-health-care-reform-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"TAKE ACTION NOW ON U.S. HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.senate.gov\/\">U.S. Senate Finance Committee<\/a> has voted <em>down<\/em> a measure which would require making the full Health  Care Reform bill available for review before the panel votes on it.\u00c2\u00a0The  committee has a &#8220;conceptual&#8221; version of the health-care bill rather than a full  legislative text of the bill.\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;It would seem crazy to most people that we vote  on something when we didn&#8217;t see the legislative language,&#8221; Senator Jim Bunning  said, &#8220;Well, they&#8217;d be right.\u00c2\u00a0It is crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See WSJ article here <a href=\"http:\/\/3.ly\/ZML\">http:\/\/3.ly\/ZML<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also see\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/cgi-bin\/exitmsg?url=http:\/\/finance.senate.gov\/sitepages\/leg\/LEG%202009\/091609%20Americas_Healthy_Future_Act.pdf\">America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  Healthy Future Act of 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you find it hard to believe that the U.S. Senate could vote on a bill as  important as the Health Care Reform bill without A) Reading the actual text of  the entire bill and B) Allowing the\u00c2\u00a0PUBLIC to read the entire bill, then you are  not alone.<\/p>\n<p>There are measures in the\u00c2\u00a0Health Care Reform bill that include major funding  for psychiatric\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;screening&#8221; programs and psychiatric funding\u00c2\u00a0that must be  eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Click here <a href=\"http:\/\/3.ly\/Gcj\">http:\/\/3.ly\/Gcj<\/a> to go to cchrint.org  \u00e2\u20ac\u201d read the provisions of the bill and contact your U.S. Senators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has voted down a measure which would require making the full Health Care Reform bill available for review before the panel votes on it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/24\/take-action-now-on-u-s-health-care-reform-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[2,3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases","tag-takeaction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-3y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}