{"id":2020,"date":"2009-11-08T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T05:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2009-11-10T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:45:13","slug":"will-loan-forgiveness-for-nola-residents-count-toward-the-cost-of-the-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/will-loan-forgiveness-for-nola-residents-count-toward-the-cost-of-the-health-care-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Will $1B loan forgiveness for NOLA residents count toward the cost of the health care bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It should, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125772600979737285.html\">logrolling that got the vote<\/a> of the lone Republican, freshman congressman Rep. Anh &#8220;Joseph&#8221; Cao:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Cao wants the Department of Homeland Security to forgive $1.27 billion in disaster loans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; officials said they would try&#8230; Mr. Cao said in a statement that he won a commitment from Mr. Obama to address issues involving Louisiana hospitals and the disaster-loan forgiveness.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There may be good reason to forgive disaster loans to New Orleans residents or businesses.\u00a0 But doing so in exchange for committing the nation in a decisive step toward nationalized health care seems like a weak and profoundly cynical bargain, not to mention naive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should, according to the logrolling that got the vote of the lone Republican, freshman congressman Rep. Anh &#8220;Joseph&#8221; Cao: Mr. Cao wants the Department of Homeland Security to forgive $1.27 billion in disaster loans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; officials said they would try&#8230; Mr. Cao said in a statement that he won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}