{"id":194,"date":"2010-03-17T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:14:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T18:14:56","slug":"call-congress-on-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Call Congress on Health Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in a <a title=\"Health Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=97\" target=\"_self\">previous post<\/a>, I support President Obama&#8217;s <a title=\"Health Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.barackobama.com\/healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Reform<\/a> initiative. It has now come down to the wire. I really believe it&#8217;s do or die time for health reform. From my point of view, not many citizens have been following the issue closely and there has been a great deal of confusion surrounding the subject in public and the media. But it&#8217;s time to take a side. Even today&#8217;s most <a title=\"Health Care Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/79485\/kucinich-explains-his-switch-on-health-reform\" target=\"_blank\">liberal politician<\/a> is now supporting the current health care reform bill. Some progressive thinkers say the President&#8217;s plan does not go far enough. However, voting no now is just not an option in this time in history. So if you support our President, call congress and support health reform <a title=\"Call Now on Health Care\" href=\"http:\/\/advocacy.barackobama.com\/healthcare\/campaigns\/18\/call_scripts\/56\/call_sessions\/new?source=hcac\" target=\"_blank\">now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fphilvelez.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D194&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=dark\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;height:20px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted in a previous post, I support President Obama&#8217;s Health Reform initiative. It has now come down to the wire. I really believe it&#8217;s do or die time for health reform. From my point of view, not many citizens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=194\">Continue reading <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Call Congress on Health Reform - V&eacute;lez&#039;s View<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philvelez.com\/blog\/?p=194\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Call Congress on Health Reform - V&eacute;lez&#039;s View\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As noted in a previous post, I support President Obama&#8217;s Health Reform initiative. 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