{"id":104,"date":"2009-08-29T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:25:57","slug":"why-universal-healthcare-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Why Universal Healthcare Is A Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most obvious, we cannot afford it.\u00a0 Over the next decade,\u00a0our deficit is 9 trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>We have a shortage of primary care physicians already, what happens when you dump 40 million more patients into the system?\u00a0 Hint &#8211; nothing good.<\/p>\n<p>Health care is not a right.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption is rampant in the US government at all levels.\u00a0 If universal healthcare\u00a0is ever implemented, an incredible amount of money targeted for healthcare will be misappropriated.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the track record for governement-run institutions of the same breadth.\u00a0 Public schools?\u00a0 VA hospitals, the debacle at Walter Reid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most obvious, we cannot afford it.\u00a0 Over the next decade,\u00a0our deficit is 9 trillion dollars. We have a shortage of primary care physicians already, what happens when you dump 40 million more patients into the system?\u00a0 Hint &#8211; nothing good. Health care is not a right. Corruption is rampant in the US government at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}