{"id":1096,"date":"2011-12-27T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T22:40:35","slug":"the-gops-health-care-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/12\/the-gops-health-care-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#8217;s health-care problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, David Fahrenthold wrote that \u201cmore than a year after Republicans first pledged to \u2018repeal and replace\u2019 President Obama\u2019s new health-care law, the GOP is still struggling to answer a basic question. Replace it .\u2009.\u2009. with what?\u201dThis shouldn\u2019t be such a problem. Health care is a big issue. It\u2019s been around a long time. The Republican Party should, in 2011, have a position on it. To understand why it doesn\u2019t, it\u2019s worth reading Newt Gingrich\u2019s April 2006 comments on then-Gov. Mitt Romney\u2019s Massachusetts reforms.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/newt-gingrichs-health-care-problem--and-the-republican-partys\/2011\/08\/25\/gIQANN5YKP_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">Newt Gingrich\u2019s health-care problem \u2014 and the Republican Party\u2019s &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, David Fahrenthold wrote that \u201cmore than a year after Republicans first pledged to \u2018repeal and replace\u2019 President Obama\u2019s new health-care law, the GOP is still struggling to answer a basic question. Replace it .\u2009.\u2009. with what?\u201dThis shouldn\u2019t be such a problem. Health care is a big issue. It\u2019s been around a long time&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,5,22],"tags":[125,706,123,708,707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}