{"id":226,"date":"2012-07-04T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-07-04T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:52:00","slug":"the-republican-turn-against-universal-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"The Republican turn against universal health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/06\/30\/the-republican-turn-against-universal-health-insurance\/\">The Republican turn against universal health insurance<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2007, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina sent a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/barone\/2007\/02\/13\/healthcare-legislation-in-this-congress\">letter<\/a> to President George W. Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>DeMint said he would like to work with Bush to pass legislation that would \u201censure that all Americans would have affordable, quality, private health coverage, while protecting current government programs. We believe the health care system cannot be fixed without providing solutions for everyone. Otherwise, the costs of those without insurance will continue to be shifted to those who do have coverage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Read that closely. DeMint does not say he wants legislation that would ensure all Americans have \u201caccess\u201d to coverage \u2014 the standard rhetorical dodge of politicians who don\u2019t want to oppose universal coverage, but also don\u2019t want to do what\u2019s necessary to achieve it. He says that he wants legislation that ensures all American actually have coverage. He says that without making sure every American has coverage, \u201cthe health care system cannot be fixed.\u201d For good measure, DeMint wants to achieve this \u201cwhile protecting current government programs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>It is amazing how crazy &#8211; and mean-spirited &#8211; conservatives have become. None of that WWJD girly nonsense for the new conservative movement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican turn against universal health insurance In 2007, Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina sent a letter to President George W. Bush. DeMint said he would like to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Republican turn against universal health insurance&#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":[6,67,52,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-arguments","category-must-read","category-right-wing-noise-machine","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}