{"id":26622,"date":"2009-06-14T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/14\/time-to-get-organized-on-healt\/"},"modified":"2009-06-14T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:58:05","slug":"time-to-get-organized-on-healt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/time-to-get-organized-on-healt\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get organized on health care."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in congress bought and paid for by Big Pharma and the other nefarious elements of the health care industry are going to kill any attempts at reform.<\/p>\n<p>Unless&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe same kind of organization at the grass roots level that put Obama in office is marshaled to force congress to do the right thing.  This won&#8217;t be easy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong><br \/>\nStand with Obama: Support a Public Health Insurance Option<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, President Obama reaffirmed his support for a public health insurance option&#8211;the key piece of health care reform that will provide coverage for all Americans and help bring costs down.<\/p>\n<p>But as the fight for real reform heats up, right-wing lobbyists and conservatives in Congress are working hard to kill the public health insurance option.<\/p>\n<p>We need to show Congress just how many Americans support Obama on health care reform. Can you sign the petition to stand with Obama?<\/p>\n<p>A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to your Senators and Representative. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/popetition\/\">SIGN THE PETITION AT MOVE ON DOT ORG.  IT IS YOUR ONLY HOPE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in congress bought and paid for by Big Pharma and the other nefarious elements of the health care industry are going to kill any attempts at reform. Unless&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[103,33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Vo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}