{"id":8106,"date":"2009-08-18T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2024-06-07T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:00:36","slug":"political-irony-congress-goes-on-vacation-people-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2009\/08\/18\/political-irony-congress-goes-on-vacation-people-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Irony \u203a Congress goes on vacation, people die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saw this a couple weeks ago, but still important to remember that Congress&#8217; laziness and lying is&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalirony.com\/2009\/07\/23\/congress-goes-on-vacation-people-die\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killing Americans<\/a>&nbsp;while they decide whether or not to fail at reforming health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To put this in perspective, what will happen while Congress is on vacation for three weeks?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>* 143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage.<br>* 53,507 people will be forced into bankruptcy because they can&#8217;t pay their medical bills.<br>* 1,265 will DIE because of a lack of health coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this a couple weeks ago, but still important to remember that Congress&#8217; laziness and lying is&nbsp;killing Americans&nbsp;while they decide whether or not to fail at reforming health care. To put this in perspective, what will happen while Congress is on vacation for three weeks? * 143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage.* 53,507 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}