{"id":152113,"date":"2017-02-07T17:08:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/u-s-house-speaker-obamacare-replacement-bill-to-pass-this-year\/"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:08:37","slug":"u-s-house-speaker-obamacare-replacement-bill-to-pass-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/u-s-house-speaker-obamacare-replacement-bill-to-pass-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House speaker: Obamacare replacement bill to pass this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday that legislation to replace former President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature healthcare law will be completed this year, although it may take longer to implement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">&#8220;We are going to do our legislating this year,&#8221; House Speaker Paul Ryan told a press briefing. &#8220;We are going to be going out and talking about what our plan is. &#8230; We hope to get this done as fast as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Ryan was responding to questions about President Donald Trump&#8217;s weekend interview with Fox News in which he said it might take until next year to replace the healthcare law, known as Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">(Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Writing by David Alexander; Editing by Susan Heavey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday that legislation to replace former President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature healthcare law will be completed this year, although it may take longer to implement. &#8220;We are going to do our legislating this year,&#8221; House Speaker Paul Ryan told a press briefing. <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/u-s-house-speaker-obamacare-replacement-bill-to-pass-this-year\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}