{"id":7031,"date":"2022-01-15T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7031"},"modified":"2022-01-15T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:28:04","slug":"congress-is-on-the-brink-of-an-immense-health-policy-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7031","title":{"rendered":"Congress is on the brink of an immense health policy failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The coronavirus pandemic has fully exposed the flaws in the US health care system<\/a> and deepened many of its disparities<\/a>. Yet there is a serious possibility, now that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has rendered the current version of the Build Back Better Act dead<\/a>, that the current Congress will not pass any long-term provisions to cover more people, make health care more affordable, or better prepare the nation for the next pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though they have not attracted as much attention as other parts of the legislation, Democrats had written a wide-ranging health care section in Build Back Better. They were planning to patch up holes in the Affordable Care Act<\/a>, extending assistance to middle-class families as well as people in poverty; to reduce drug costs<\/a> for millions of Americans; and to make investments in the country\u2019s health care infrastructure<\/a>, with the goal of better preparing the US for the inevitable next pandemic<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/22846276\/build-back-better-bill-health-care-covid-response<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The coronavirus pandemic has fully exposed the flaws in the US health care system and deepened many of its disparities. Yet there is a serious possibility, now that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has rendered the current version of the Build Back Better Act dead, that the current Congress will not pass any long-term provisions to cover more people, make health care more affordable, or better prepare the nation for the next pandemic.<\/p>\n

Though they have not attracted as much attention as other parts of the legislation, Democrats had written a wide-ranging health care section in Build Back Better. They were planning to patch up holes in the Affordable Care Act, extending assistance to middle-class families as well as people in poverty; to reduce drug costs for millions of Americans; and to make investments in the country\u2019s health care infrastructure, with the goal of better preparing the US for the inevitable next pandemic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[905,542,588,409,483,81,73,906],"class_list":["post-7031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bill","tag-congress","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7032,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions\/7032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}