{"id":4364,"date":"2010-02-09T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:58:21","slug":"healthcare-reform-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/09\/healthcare-reform-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare reform update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4365\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"health-care symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/health-care-symbol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/health-care-symbol-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/health-care-symbol.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>With President Obama inviting Congressional Republicans to a Feb. 25 summit in hopes of reviving healthcare reform legislation, political jockeying is under way.\u00a0 House GOP leaders say they\u00a0may <a title=\"boycott\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/02\/top-house-republicans-throw-co.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">boycott <\/a>unless the bills that passed both Democrat-controlled chambers are scrapped.\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\u00a0&#8220;<em>Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System<\/em>&#8221; says the GOP should take advantage of the bipartisan offer.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Maybe the Republicans will have good ideas that can be incorporated into the bills. If not, the public will see the emptiness of their rhetoric.&#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>With President Obama inviting Congressional Republicans to a Feb. 25 summit in hopes of reviving healthcare reform legislation, political jockeying is under way.\u00a0 House GOP leaders say they\u00a0may boycott unless the bills that passed both Democrat-controlled chambers are scrapped.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of\u00a0&#8220;Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System&#8221; says the [&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":[1104,2323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364"}],"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=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}