{"id":270,"date":"2012-03-02T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-03-02T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:43:00","slug":"meme-busting-tort-reform-cost-control-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Meme-busting: Tort reform = cost control &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_296w\/WashingtonPost\/Content\/Blogs\/ezra-klein\/StandingArt\/Pie%20TR.jpg?uuid=sHQPjo0ZEeCJxt5ltTFohg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_296w\/WashingtonPost\/Content\/Blogs\/ezra-klein\/StandingArt\/Pie%20TR.jpg?uuid=sHQPjo0ZEeCJxt5ltTFohg\" width=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/meme-busting-tort-reform--cost-control\/2011\/06\/02\/AGpb0DHH_blog.html\">Meme-busting: Tort reform = cost control &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>If the pie represents our total health-care spending, then the blue wedge is defensive medicine. Not as big as you thought, likely. But the red sliver, which I pulled out for easier viewing, is what we could expect to see in savings from tort reform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meme-busting: Tort reform = cost control &#8211; The Washington Post: If the pie represents our total health-care spending, then the blue wedge is defensive medicine. Not as big as you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meme-busting: Tort reform = cost control &#8211; The Washington Post&#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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-liability"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}