{"id":62,"date":"2009-03-09T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:37:16","slug":"health-care-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is apparently going to be the new legislation rammed down our throats, how about considering these three factors as priorities over anything else?\u00a0 (Oddly, not one of them ever seems to be part of health care overhaul.\u00a0 Pink elephants?):<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Preventative health care.\u00a0 If we didn\u2019t weigh or smoke so much, or got decent exercise, how many fewer health problems would we have?<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 Insurance companies.\u00a0 They run the show for the most part.\u00a0 Patients hate them, doctors hate them.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 Tort reform.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll throw in a fourth with an asterisk.\u00a0 No more drug commercials.\u00a0 Why are America and New Zealand the only countries that allow this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is apparently going to be the new legislation rammed down our throats, how about considering these three factors as priorities over anything else?\u00a0 (Oddly, not one of them ever seems to be part of health care overhaul.\u00a0 Pink elephants?): 1.\u00a0 Preventative health care.\u00a0 If we didn\u2019t weigh or smoke so much, or got [&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-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}