{"id":665,"date":"2010-02-25T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2010-02-25T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:09:00","slug":"oops-the-summit-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/oops-the-summit-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"OOPS! The Summit Is On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/OOPSTheSummitIsOn_8ECE\/Tom122007.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"Tom122007\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tom122007\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/OOPSTheSummitIsOn_8ECE\/Tom122007_thumb.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> In today\u2019s open thread I said that I hoped to catch up on comments before leaving for my volunteer day with prisoners.&#160; I was not consider that I would be watching the health care summit on TV, which is exactly what I\u2019m doing.&#160; Worst case scenario is that I\u2019ll be back up to date before the weekend is over.<\/p>\n<p>On the summit, the most notable feature is that all the Republicans have an expression like they just ate a bad clam.&#160; Obama has been quite congenial, but has called the Republicans on several of their lies.&#160; The Republican response to that has been for the speaker to evade and for the next speaker to repeat the lie.&#160; Obama has also demonstrated the ability to express knowledge in depth on the issues with no teleprompters in the room.&#160; The Republicans have offered nothing new: start over, don\u2019t use reconciliation, health savings accounts (not a bad idea for the rich), tort reform.<\/p>\n<p>One area of substantive differences has been over exchanges \u2013vs- voluntary associations and unregulated sales against state lines.&#160; The Democratic position is that it\u2019s up to the federal government to set minimum standards on what an insurance company must offer.&#160; The Republican position is that what should be covered should be left up to insurance companies and business owners.<\/p>\n<p>Which of you trust your employer and an insurance company to determine what coverage you should have with no input from you or your elected representatives?<\/p>\n<p>What are your observations on the summit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s open thread I said that I hoped to catch up on comments before leaving for my volunteer day with prisoners.&#160; I was not consider that I would be watching the health care summit on TV, which is exactly what I\u2019m doing.&#160; Worst case scenario is that I\u2019ll be back up to date before <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/oops-the-summit-is-on\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}