{"id":1703,"date":"2009-09-19T15:38:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T19:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2009-09-19T15:38:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T19:38:44","slug":"max-baucus-healt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/09\/19\/max-baucus-healt\/","title":{"rendered":"Balking At The Baucus Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Potter, the former health insurance industry executive-turned-whistleblower, presents a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/09\/15\/wendell-potter-public-opt_n_287733.html\">scathing analysis of the Max Baucus health reform plan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Balking At The Baucus Bill<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Baucus, your health plan&#8217;s so bad,<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t decide if you&#8217;re dim or a cad.<br \/>\nCuz the garbage disposal<br \/>\nBefits your proposal.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re driving us <strong>real<\/strong> Dems quite mad.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/09\/03\/judd-gregg-limerick\/\">Ode To Senator Judd \u201cMajority Rules, Except When It Doesn\u2019t\u201d Gregg;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/18\/obama-limerick\/\">Open Limerick To President Obama;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/16\/death-panels\/\">Republicans Were For \u201cDeath Panels\u201d Before They Were Against Them;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/06\/tantrum-politics\/\">Tantrum Politics;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/04\/waterloo-lies\/ \">Waterloo Lies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Potter, the former health insurance industry executive-turned-whistleblower, presents a scathing analysis of the Max Baucus health reform plan. And that brings me to my latest limerick: Balking At The Baucus Bill By Madeleine Begun Kane Dear Baucus, your health plan&#8217;s so bad, Can&#8217;t decide if you&#8217;re dim or a cad. Cuz the garbage disposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,556,11,266,6,7,3,12],"tags":[780,828,2831,924],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-satire","category-insurance-humor","category-legislation","category-max-baucus","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-senate","tag-health-reform","tag-insurance-reform","tag-max-baucus","tag-wendell-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}