{"id":3401,"date":"2013-09-10T20:27:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2013-09-10T20:27:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:27:29","slug":"cbo-obamacare-individual-mandate-delay-would-save-35-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/cbo-obamacare-individual-mandate-delay-would-save-35-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"CBO: Obamacare individual mandate delay would save $35 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CBO found that just a one-year delay of the individual mandate would save $35 billion over ten years. But the basic cost structure of the Affordable Care Act would remain intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never thought I\u2019d see the day when the White House, this president, came down on the side of big business, but left the American people out in the cold as far as this health care mandate is concerned,\u201d House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said.<\/p>\n<p>Cantor\u2019s message carried over even to some in the President\u2019s own party. The \u201cFairness for American Families Act\u201d is one of many Republican-dominated efforts to delay certain aspects of Obamacare, but this time it received bipartisan support: 22 House Democrats bucked their own party and voted for the bill, which President Obama vowed to veto.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry130910-182516\">CBO: Obamacare individual mandate delay would save $35 billion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBO found that just a one-year delay of the individual mandate would save $35 billion over ten years. But the basic cost structure of the Affordable Care Act would remain intact. \u201cI never thought I\u2019d see the day when the White House, this president, came down on the side of big business, but left the American people out in the cold as far as this health care mandate is concerned,\u201d House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said. Cantor\u2019s message carried over even to some in the President\u2019s own party. The \u201cFairness for American Families Act\u201d is one of many Republican-dominated efforts to delay certain aspects of Obamacare, but this time it received bipartisan support: 22 House Democrats bucked their own party and voted for the bill, which President Obama vowed to veto. via CBO: Obamacare individual mandate delay would save $35 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1252],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}