{"id":950,"date":"2009-01-29T05:34:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T10:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/29\/repost-funny-grasping-reality-with-both-hands-ummm-are-there-no-copyeditors\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T05:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T10:34:53","slug":"repost-funny-grasping-reality-with-both-hands-ummm-are-there-no-copyeditors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/repost-funny-grasping-reality-with-both-hands-ummm-are-there-no-copyeditors\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost FUNNY&#8211;Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Ummm&#8230; Are There No Copyeditors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230; Are There No Copyeditors?<br \/>\nLaura Meckler writes:<br \/>\nWashington Wire &#8211; WSJ.com: Women&#8217;s Groups Protest Dropping Contraceptives Provision in Stimulus: Women\u2019s and reproductive rights groups expressed dismay Tuesday after the White House and congressional Democrats agreed to drop a provision from the economic stimulus package that would have made it easier for states to expand coverage of contraceptives through their Medicaid programs.<br \/>\nThe measure had become a target of GOP attacks, such as this one from House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio <strong>\u201cHow you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives? How does that stimulate the economy?\u201d<\/strong> he said last week. His argument is part of a Republican hammering that too much in the bill will not serve to aid the economy.<br \/>\nSupporters of the measure point to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office that, by the third year of implementation, the measure would actually save $100 billion per year by preventing some pregnancies and avoiding the Medicaid cost of delivering and then caring for these babies&#8230;<br \/>\nSurely this is $100 million a year? I mean, $100 billion a year is $1,333 in reduced Medicaid costs for every post-menarche pre-menopause woman in the United States&#8230;<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2009\/01\/ummm-are-there-no-copyeditors.html\">Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Ummm&#8230; Are There No Copyeditors?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm&#8230; Are There No Copyeditors? Laura Meckler writes: Washington Wire &#8211; WSJ.com: Women&#8217;s Groups Protest Dropping Contraceptives Provision in Stimulus: Women\u2019s and reproductive rights groups expressed dismay Tuesday after the White House and congressional Democrats agreed to drop a provision from the economic stimulus package that would have made it easier for states to expand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/29\/repost-funny-grasping-reality-with-both-hands-ummm-are-there-no-copyeditors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost FUNNY&#8211;Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Ummm&#8230; Are There No Copyeditors?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}