{"id":519,"date":"2009-09-01T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2009-09-01T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T01:04:00","slug":"daily-kos-a-few-anecdotes-about-medical-care-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Daily Kos: A few anecdotes about medical care in America&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/9\/1\/775411\/-A-few-anecdotes-about-medical-care-in-America...\">Daily Kos: A few anecdotes about medical care in America&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I posted this on DailyKos tonight. Please go read the rest and chime in!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On many levels, I hate to venture into anecdote territory when it comes to health care reform. I don&#8217;t think it informs the debate in a helpful manner, and yet, it seems to be one of the two major arms of the conservative campaign against health care reform. First, they argue, look how awful it is everywhere else and how wonderful we have it here in America with THE Best Health Care System in the World (TM) and second, they find even Medicare, Social Security and unemployment benefits ideological anathema.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t do anything about the second one, but I do have something to<br \/>say about the first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Kos: A few anecdotes about medical care in America&#8230; I posted this on DailyKos tonight. Please go read the rest and chime in! On many levels, I hate to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=519\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daily Kos: A few anecdotes about medical care in America&#8230;&#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":[32,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-off","category-physician-opinion"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}