{"id":31,"date":"2009-09-20T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/blog\/too-late-for-healthcare-reform\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:25:06","slug":"too-late-for-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/too-late-for-healthcare-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Too late for healthcare reform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Opponents of reform like to use Medicare and Medicaid as arguments that doctors are underpaid by such government-run programs. However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=112818960?storyId=112818960\">recent poll<\/a> shows that 73 percent of doctors support a government insurance plan, whether by itself (single-payer) or in conjunction with private plans.<\/li>\n<li>Dick Armey, the Tea Party Organizer of the recent march on Washington and a long-time opponent of healthcare reform, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/09\/18\/bill-moyers-tea-party-org_n_291625.html\">receiving taxpayer-subsidized government-run healthcare<\/a> for virtually his entire adult life, and he&#8217;ll likely have it until the day he dies.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Andrew Weil writes about how the healthcare reform debate is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andrew-weil-md\/the-wrong-diagnosis_b_254227.html\">addressing the wrong issue<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Krugman explains how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/31\/opinion\/31krugman.html\">government involvement<\/a> is the only reason our current healthcare system, as bad as it is, works at all.<\/li>\n<li>Bob Cesca <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bob-cesca\/if-you-dont-want-the-publ_b_228324.html\">nails the idiocy<\/a> of opposition to a public option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you care about healthcare reform, you <em>must<\/em> read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/29988909\/sick_and_wrong\">Matt Taibbi&#8217;s article<\/a> in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. He neatly encapsulates everything Washington is doing to screw up reform and shows how whatever bill eventually passes into law will end up making things even worse. It&#8217;s a depressing article but you need to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}