{"id":919,"date":"2009-07-23T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/23\/gillibrand-embraces-public-option-for-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T00:15:00","slug":"gillibrand-embraces-public-option-for-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/23\/gillibrand-embraces-public-option-for-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand embraces &#8216;public option&#8217; for healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is using the progressive blogosphere to rally support for a so-called &#8220;public option&#8221; for national healthcare &#8212; something akin to Medicare that would be available to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Her essays have appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/5\/11\/730233\/-I-Support-The-Public-Option\">DailyKos<\/a> site and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rep-kirsten-gillibrand\/help-me-fight-for-a-publi_b_241461.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I truly believe that health care is a right, not a privilege, and that the time for real reform &#8212; including a public option &#8212; is now. As the President said last night, the status quo is <i>not<\/i> an option and with you by my side, I intend to continue to fight for the real reform that Americans deserve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gillibrand first declared her support for the public option in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is using the progressive blogosphere to rally support for a so-called &#8220;public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[4803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}