{"id":3311,"date":"2009-09-29T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T20:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2009-09-29T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T20:34:18","slug":"senate-finance-rejects-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/29\/senate-finance-rejects-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Finance rejects public option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a 15-8 vote, the Democratic-controlled Senate Finance Committee has <a title=\"rejected\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/companyNewsAndPR\/idUSN2930231620090929\" target=\"_blank\">rejected<\/a> the &#8220;public option&#8221; in the healthcare reform bill sponsored by chairman Max Baucus.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Stephen Davidson\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/DavidsonStephen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Davidson<\/a>, author of <em>&#8220;In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System,&#8221;<\/em> says without a government-run option, the insurance industry won&#8217;t be able to keep costs down.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bottom line: Requiring everyone to have coverage would be a good thing because millions more will have insurance. But without the public option, the new system will have built-in pressure to raise prices or cut benefits.&#8221;<\/em><\/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>On a 15-8 vote, the Democratic-controlled Senate Finance Committee has rejected the &#8220;public option&#8221; in the healthcare reform bill sponsored by chairman Max Baucus.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of &#8220;In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System,&#8221; says without a government-run option, the insurance industry won&#8217;t be able to keep [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311"}],"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=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}