{"id":3907,"date":"2009-12-09T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:45:57","slug":"senate-compromise-on-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/09\/senate-compromise-on-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate compromise on &#8220;public option&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3908\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"health-care symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/health-care-symbol-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/health-care-symbol.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Senate Democratic leaders have a tentative <a title=\"compromise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jlMpJGn28kqCcgU-aGcYE_ZHW-ywD9CFSIPG0\" target=\"_blank\">compromise<\/a> on the &#8220;public option&#8221; part of the healthcare-reform bill which might be able to garner enough votes to get the whole package passed.\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Alan Cohen\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/CohenAlan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Cohen<\/a>, who heads BU&#8217;s <a title=\"Health Policy Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mvp\/about\/institute.html\" target=\"_blank\">Health Policy Institute<\/a>, thinks it&#8217;s smart to offer private plans under the auspices of the federal-employee health program and to let middle-aged people buy into Medicare.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;These are reasonable, commonsensical concessions by the liberals to gain the support of the moderates in Congress, and a separate national public option would not be necessary unless these options failed in the short-term.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Alan Cohen, 617-353-9222, <a href=\"mailto:abcohen@bu.edu\">abcohen@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democratic leaders have a tentative compromise on the &#8220;public option&#8221; part of the healthcare-reform bill which might be able to garner enough votes to get the whole package passed.\u00a0 Professor Alan Cohen, who heads BU&#8217;s Health Policy Institute, thinks it&#8217;s smart to offer private plans under the auspices of the federal-employee health program and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[1671,2415,1104,2324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907"}],"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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}