{"id":7544,"date":"2017-07-24T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7544"},"modified":"2017-07-24T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T14:51:54","slug":"senate-parliamentarian-upends-gop-hopes-for-health-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7544","title":{"rendered":"Senate Parliamentarian Upends GOP Hopes For Health Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Rovner for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The official rules keeper in the Senate Friday tossed a bucket of cold water on the Senate Republican health bill by advising that major parts of the bill cannot be passed with a simple majority, but rather would require 60 votes. 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