{"id":2667,"date":"2009-08-05T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2009-08-05T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:27:15","slug":"healthcare-reform-debate-heating-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/05\/healthcare-reform-debate-heating-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare reform debate heating up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2669\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"health-care-symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/08\/health-care-symbol.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>With President Obama and Senate Democats <a title=\"trying to preserve\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/05\/health\/policy\/05health.html\" target=\"_blank\">trying to preserve <\/a>a bipartisan deal on healthcare reform, Congress will head home for the August recess with a bill&#8217;s final shape still up for grabs.\u00a0 In a Reuters <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2009\/08\/04\/reforming-healthcare-hand-behind-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>, School of Management Professor <a title=\"Stephen Davidson\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/DavidsonStephen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Davidson<\/a> suggests they consider creating a dedicated federal Health Insurance Fund (HIF) to pay unsurers, then issue vouchers for individuals to choose their health plan.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Stephen Davidson, 617-353-7422, <a href=\"mailto:sdavidso@bu.edu\">sdavidso@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With President Obama and Senate Democats trying to preserve a bipartisan deal on healthcare reform, Congress will head home for the August recess with a bill&#8217;s final shape still up for grabs.\u00a0 In a Reuters commentary, School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson suggests they consider creating a dedicated federal Health Insurance Fund (HIF) to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1556,1104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}