{"id":4027,"date":"2009-12-21T15:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:43:52","slug":"healthcare-bill-advances-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/21\/healthcare-bill-advances-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare bill advances in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4028\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/healthcare-reform.jpg\" alt=\"healthcare reform\" width=\"84\" height=\"126\" \/>In a dramatic middle-of-the-night vote, Democrats won a 60-40 <a title=\"procedural vote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/21\/us\/21vote.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">procedural vote <\/a>on the Senate healthcare-reform bill which they hope to pass on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Stephen Davidson\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/DavidsonStephen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Davidson<\/a>, whose book \u201c<em>Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System<\/em>\u201d will be published soon, says in a Huffington Post <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stephen-m-davidson\/what-should-progressives_b_398090.html\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> that progressive should take the best they can get, pass it, and improve it later.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We should see this episode as part of a continuing saga, rather than as a process that ends with the President&#8217;s signature on a new law enacted by this Congress. This is a bill worth supporting. Then, on the day after it passes, begin to organize to make it better.&#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>In a dramatic middle-of-the-night vote, Democrats won a 60-40 procedural vote on the Senate healthcare-reform bill which they hope to pass on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, whose book \u201cStill Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System\u201d will be published soon, says in a Huffington Post commentary that progressive should take the best [&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":[2425,1671,2415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027"}],"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=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}