{"id":96727,"date":"2017-04-03T23:38:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T03:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96727"},"modified":"2017-04-03T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T03:39:00","slug":"white-house-officials-offer-change-to-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/03\/white-house-officials-offer-change-to-health-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"White House officials offer change to health care bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95683\" style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16114659_1198895506864847_7569046196735019995_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95683\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16114659_1198895506864847_7569046196735019995_n.jpg\" alt=\"White House officials hoping to resuscitate the failed House Republican health care bill are offering a change in hopes of winning support from conservatives who helped derail it.  (Photo: The White House\/ Facebook)\" width=\"472\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16114659_1198895506864847_7569046196735019995_n.jpg 472w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16114659_1198895506864847_7569046196735019995_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/16114659_1198895506864847_7569046196735019995_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House officials hoping to resuscitate the failed House Republican health care bill are offering a change in hopes of winning support from conservatives who helped derail it. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WhiteHouse\/photos\/a.1191450067609391.1073741825.1191441824276882\/1198895506864847\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">The White House\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 White House officials hoping to resuscitate the failed House Republican health care bill are offering a change in hopes of winning support from conservatives who helped derail it.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-President Mike Pence and two top White House officials met late Monday with members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and budget chief Mick Mulvaney were also there.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting participant says the officials offered to let states apply to the federal government for waivers from insurance coverage requirements that President Barack Obama&#8217;s 2010 health care law imposed.<\/p>\n<p>These include a requirement that insurers can&#8217;t drop sick people. Conservatives complain these requirements drive up premium costs.<\/p>\n<p>The participant spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the closed-door meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 White House officials hoping to resuscitate the failed House Republican health care bill are offering a change in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[9746],"class_list":["post-96727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-white-house","mauthors-alan-fram","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}