{"id":1768,"date":"2010-03-19T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/19\/plattsburgh-rally-planned-to-oppose-health-care-bill\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:38:00","slug":"plattsburgh-rally-planned-to-oppose-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/19\/plattsburgh-rally-planned-to-oppose-health-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Plattsburgh rally planned to oppose health care bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke at length last night with Mark Barie &#8212; head of the UNYTEA, the Upstate New York Tea Party &#8212; and a colleague from our days doing public television together.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is a passionate, thoughtful conservative, and his organization is sure to play a role in this year&#8217;s North Country congressional races.  <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s convinced that the Democratic bill now being debated in Congress is too expensive and takes away too many liberties.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s particularly concerned about a provision requiring that Americans buy health insurance.  <\/p>\n<p>You can hear our conversation her<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/15400\/north-country-tea-party-leader-urges-no-vote-on-health-bill\"><\/a>e and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unytea.com\/\">UNYTEA&#8217;s website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the nonpartisan <a href=\"http:\/\/cboblog.cbo.gov\/?p=508\">Congressional Budget Office is reporting that the Democratic bill would actually reduce the deficit over time by tens of billions of dollars<\/a>, while insuring an additional 32 million Americans who now have no coverage.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/article\/2010\/mar\/18\/top-10-facts-know-about-health-care-reform\/\">Politifact&#8217;s non-partisan effort to fact check<\/a> the health care debate here.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, you can offer your own opinion.  Is this a common sense way to move tens of millions of Americans toward better health and more security.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a costly boondoggle, one that expands government power in ways that make you nervous?<\/p>\n<p>Or something in between?  Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke at length last night with Mark Barie &#8212; head of the UNYTEA, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}