{"id":173,"date":"2012-10-23T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2012-10-23T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:38:00","slug":"orthopedic-group-in-philly-lays-down-big-bet-for-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Orthopedic Group in Philly lays down big bet for Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/business\/20121023_PhillyDeals__Small-business_owners_plan_to_delay_hiring_process_until_after_election.html\">PhillyDeals: Small-business owners plan to delay hiring process until after election<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rothman for Romney<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Doctors who staff the Philadelphia-based <b>Rothman Institute<\/b>  chain of orthopedic clinics were, as a group, the &#8220;top contributors to Mitt  Romney&#8217;s Republican campaign for the third quarter of 2012,&#8221; the <b>Washington Post<\/b> reports, citing <b>Federal Election  Commission<\/b> data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Contributions to a pro-Romney fund from 65 Rothman doctors on Sept. 17  totaled $751,000. The second-largest Romney-donor employer group for that period  worked for private-equity investors <b>Kohlberg Kravis Roberts<\/b>,  which gave $480,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Why do these bone men want to dump President Obama? Rothman spokesman <b>Richard Cushman<\/b> declined to comment when my colleague <b>Harold Brubaker<\/b> asked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>I know, I know! They <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/disparity-in-pay-divides-doctors\/2012\/10\/22\/675233a8-f1e0-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_print.html\"><i>have huge incomes<\/i><\/a><i> and don&#8217;t want them to <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=226129\"><i>change one little bit.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhillyDeals: Small-business owners plan to delay hiring process until after election Rothman for Romney Doctors who staff the Philadelphia-based Rothman Institute chain of orthopedic clinics were, as a group, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orthopedic Group in Philly lays down big bet for Romney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physician-income"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}