{"id":513,"date":"2009-09-12T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2009-09-12T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T16:31:00","slug":"the-most-outrageous-u-s-lies-about-global-healthcare-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare | Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/18\/the_most_outrageous_us_lies_about_global_healthcare\">The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called &#8220;death panels&#8221; to the supposed prowess of America&#8217;s homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad &#8212; sometimes at the United States&#8217; closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lies rebutted include:<\/p>\n<p>1. Stephen Hawking and Ted Kennedy would be doomed outside the US.<br \/>2. Canadians come to the US for urgent care.<br \/>3. All European health care systems are single payer.<br \/>4. Canada and Britain restrict health care choices.<br \/>5. The US has The Best Healthcare In The World. (TM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare Foreign Policy As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare | Foreign Policy&#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":[52,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-right-wing-noise-machine","category-us-world-health-care-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}