{"id":2546,"date":"2009-07-20T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/obama-full-court-press-on-healthcare-reform.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:14:50","slug":"obama-full-court-press-on-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2546","title":{"rendered":"Obama Full Court Press on Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SmRt_KfqNiI\/AAAAAAAAB7g\/ovrIb29ksvA\/s1600-h\/GeneralMedical.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360530388394063394\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 170px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 135px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SmRt_KfqNiI\/AAAAAAAAB7g\/ovrIb29ksvA\/s320\/GeneralMedical.jpg?w=735\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">Obama applies Full Court Press to pass healthcare reform. Bush tried that on Soc Sec reform and lost big. He&#8217;s walking a fine line<span> and needs to find a middle ground before the internal bickering and hand wringing grind progress to a halt. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 10px\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1><a title=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/19\/AR2009071901465.html?referrer=\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/19\/AR2009071901465.html?referrer=emailarticle\">President Is Set to &#8216;Take the Baton&#8217;<\/a><br \/><\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">By Michael D. Shear and Shailagh Murray<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama may have no greater test of his ability to translate personal popularity into a successful legislative agenda than the upcoming two weeks.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"PADDING-LEFT: 10px\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;\"   >_____________<br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;\"   ><a href=\"http:\/\/willclower.ning.com\/?xgi=2KMIZr7\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">Join Our NEW Mediterranean Wellness Social Network<\/span><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;\"   ><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;\"   ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;\"   >Dr. Clower is the award-winning author <span>of <i>The<\/i><\/span><i> Fat Fallacy, The French Don&#8217;t Diet,<\/i> and Founder of The PATH Wellness Programs<\/p>\n<p><b>See Dr Clower&#8217;s interview with Barbara Walters!<br \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font-family:Arial;font-size:12;color:blue;\"   ><span style=\"font-size:85%;color:#000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willclower.com\/media\/wmv\/ViewClip.wmv\">www.willclower.com\/media\/wmv\/ViewClip.wmv<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:blue;\"   ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:blue;\"   >t: 412-363-5201<br \/>f: 412-363-5202<br \/>e:<\/span><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-: AR-SAfont-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;\"   > <a href=\"mailto:will@willclower.com\">will@willclower.com<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;\"  ><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;\"  ><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12;\"  ><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:#0000ff;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama applies Full Court Press to pass healthcare reform. Bush tried that on Soc Sec reform and lost big. He&#8217;s walking a fine line and needs to find a middle &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-healthcare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-F4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2563,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2563","url_meta":{"origin":2546,"position":0},"title":"Healthcare Reform: The basics","author":"Will Clower","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The times, they are a'changing.Whether you're on the right or left or somewhere in the middle, you've probably got an opinion on the coming changes that we can expect to our healthcare system.This is a great summary from NIH.gov. The part I like the best is that which emphasizes prevention.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2399,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2399","url_meta":{"origin":2546,"position":1},"title":"Health Care Reform and Corporate Wellness &#8211; Compensation Today","author":"Will Clower","date":"April 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What the new healthcare legislation means for corporate wellness. 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At the very least, once the final form of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2538,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2538","url_meta":{"origin":2546,"position":3},"title":"Healthcare stalls","author":"Will Clower","date":"July 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Senate will not get a version of the healthcare reform legislation completed before the August break. And that us probably a great thing, to have a delay to let everyone get a better sense of this critical debate. The link to the full article is here:http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16026\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=NbV9TmW8In fact, it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2477,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2477","url_meta":{"origin":2546,"position":4},"title":"Radio Show Today","author":"Will Clower","date":"November 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My radio show is on today from 2:00 - 4:00 EST. If you are around, listen in and give me a call. 412.333.1360You can listen live here. We will be talking about the Soda Tax, healthcare reform, and the Veterans Admin Health System.For more information: Click here to visit Will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bookmark and Share","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/v2\/lg-share-en.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2472,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2472","url_meta":{"origin":2546,"position":5},"title":"Radio Program Today!!","author":"Will Clower","date":"November 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi everyone, here is the itinerary for today's show:First of all I'll be talking about healthcare reform, where we are, how things are going, what to expect. I'll also be talking about the kerfuffle over mammogram recommendations. 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