{"id":18182,"date":"2026-01-25T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-reached-a-surprise-bipartisan-health-deal-now-they-have-to-keep-it-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:22:14","slug":"lawmakers-reached-a-surprise-bipartisan-health-deal-now-they-have-to-keep-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-reached-a-surprise-bipartisan-health-deal-now-they-have-to-keep-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers reached a surprise bipartisan health deal. Now they have to keep it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The package, which would reform the way the intermediaries between drugmakers and insurers and employers operate, faces a tough test this week&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/congress-health-deal-still-has-hurdles-00740600\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The package, which would reform the way the intermediaries between drugmakers and insurers and employers operate, faces a tough test this week&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}