{"id":4805,"date":"2013-11-01T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:31:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:31:42","slug":"white-house-exerting-massive-pressure-on-insurance-companies-to-keep-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/01\/white-house-exerting-massive-pressure-on-insurance-companies-to-keep-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"White House exerting \u2018massive pressure\u2019 on insurance companies to keep quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is pressuring insurance companies not to speak publicly about Obama administration policies that could eliminate the existing health insurance plans of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The administration made \u201cclarifications\u201d to the 2010 Affordable Care Act after it was passed that have already wiped out hundreds of thousands of existing health plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, if you speak out, if you\u2019re quoted, you\u2019re going to get a call from the White House, pressure to be quiet,\u201d said CNN investigative reporter Drew Griffin on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night. Insurance companies executives, Griffin said, ask heads of consulting firms not to criticize the Obamacare rollout debacle publicly.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry131101-233041\">White House exerting \u2018massive pressure\u2019 on insurance companies to keep quiet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is pressuring insurance companies not to speak publicly about Obama administration policies that could eliminate the existing health insurance plans of millions of Americans. The administration made \u201cclarifications\u201d to the 2010 Affordable Care Act after it was passed that have already wiped out hundreds of thousands of existing health plans. \u201cBasically, if you speak out, if you\u2019re quoted, you\u2019re going to get a call from the White House, pressure to be quiet,\u201d said CNN investigative reporter Drew Griffin on Anderson Cooper 360 Wednesday night. Insurance companies executives, Griffin said, ask heads of consulting firms not to criticize the Obamacare rollout debacle publicly. via White House exerting \u2018massive pressure\u2019 on insurance companies to keep quiet<\/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":[128,1252],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-aca","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}