{"id":393,"date":"2014-01-31T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2014-01-31T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T22:11:16","slug":"gop-obamacare-sabotage-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"GOP Obamacare sabotage works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=GOP+Obamacare+sabotage+works\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=393\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2014\/01\/31\/gop-obamacare-sabotage-works\/?hpid=z2\">GOP Obamacare sabotage works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Incredible: Tuesday&#8217;s GOP response to the State of the Union featured &#8220;Bette in Spokane&#8221; whose insurance costs went way up under Obamacare.\u00a0 It turns out though that Bette was the victim of GOP sabotage.\u00a0 She took Republican advice and did NOT shop for a plan on the Exchange and got ripped off.\u00a0 As this article points out:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0&#8220;Even though the exchange could have gotten her a better deal, it was a better political outcome for Republicans that she didn\u2019t avail herself of that option. And precisely because she didn\u2019t, she was turned into a poster woman for Obamacare victimization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">I&#8217;ll say it again: if the GOP would get out of the way we&#8217;d have a lot more progress in this country, instead of limping along as we have over the last 5 years.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"_58cn\" style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/voteblue2014?source=feed_text\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl\" style=\"color: #6d84b4;\">\u202a#\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">voteblue2014\u202c<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"_5ys3\" style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14.079999923706055px;\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Obamacare sabotage works. Incredible: Tuesday&#8217;s GOP response to the State of the Union featured &#8220;Bette in Spokane&#8221; whose insurance costs went way up under Obamacare.\u00a0 It turns out though that Bette was the victim of GOP sabotage.\u00a0 She took Republican advice and did NOT shop for a plan on the Exchange and got ripped off.\u00a0 As this article points out: \u00a0&#8220;Even though the exchange could have gotten her a better deal, it was a better political outcome for Republicans that she didn\u2019t avail herself of that option. And precisely because she didn\u2019t, she was turned into a poster woman \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=393\"> Continue reading this post <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health_care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}