{"id":158,"date":"2009-11-19T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/19\/who-decides-opt-out\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:10:08","slug":"who-decides-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/19\/who-decides-opt-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Decides Opt-Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Senate bill now up for discussion, one focus will be on how the public option is implemented.&#160; The Senate allows states to \u201copt-out.\u201d&#160; Who\u2019s the \u201cstate\u201d?&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Can a governor unilaterally opt-out?&#160; Must it be by a vote of the legislature?&#160; Is there a gubernatorial veto possibility?&#160; Must there be a referendum?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s in the 2,000+ page bill.&#160; But as I\u2019m probably the only person on the planet who hasn\u2019t read it in its entirety, I wonder if someone could please inform me, because they press sure hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Senate bill now up for discussion, one focus will be on how the public option is implemented.&#160; The Senate allows states to \u201copt-out.\u201d&#160; Who\u2019s the \u201cstate\u201d?&#160; Can a governor unilaterally opt-out?&#160; Must it be by a vote of the legislature?&#160; Is there a gubernatorial veto possibility?&#160; Must there be a referendum? Maybe it\u2019s&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/19\/who-decides-opt-out\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}