{"id":1035,"date":"2009-12-19T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T15:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:14","slug":"giant-insurance-company-giveaway-eve-nelson-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Giant Insurance Company Giveaway Eve: Nelson Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/12\/19\/health.care\/index.html\">CNN is reporting<\/a> that Ben Nelson is feeling a bit more in control of my body, so a happy camper overall.<\/p>\n<p>He says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Anyone who is in the exchange who also gets a federal subsidy because they&#8217;re poor, if they choose a private insurance policy and want any kind of abortion coverage, they have to write that part of the premium from their own personal funds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Offhand I&#8217;d say that means most poor women getting subsidies will elect not to write that additional check for the coverage &#8211; can&#8217;t afford to, really, if you are poor.  <\/p>\n<p>No word on whether Nelson&#8217;s other demands, such as cutting the aforementioned subsidies, have also been met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, CNN is reporting that Ben Nelson is feeling a bit more in control of my body, so a happy camper overall. He says: &#8220;Anyone who is in the exchange who also gets a federal subsidy because they&#8217;re poor, if they choose a private insurance policy and want any kind of abortion coverage, they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[298,20,330,10,331,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}