{"id":785,"date":"2008-04-20T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2008-04-20T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T21:40:00","slug":"sunday-forum-medicare-for-all-australian-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Forum: Medicare for all (&#8220;Australian Rules&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/08111\/874677-109.stm\">Sunday Forum: Medicare for all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some Americans believe that countries like Australia, Canada and nearly all of Europe have &#8216;socialized medicine.&#8217; For many, it&#8217;s a vague concept that often conjures images of uncaring doctors, dirty government clinics, cracked plaster, crowded waiting rooms and really old magazines. And if you don&#8217;t like it &#8212; well, you can&#8217;t fight city hall.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just a dark fantasy. Australia has attractive offices and hospitals, great doctors, state-of-the-art care and, most importantly, quick and easy access to high-quality emergency care.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not socialized medicine, it&#8217;s Medicare for all. You are born with it, you die with it and you get all the care you need in-between. Everyone has insurance, all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Flanders is a psychiatrist in Pittsburgh and does a nice job of contrasting healthcare in the US and Australia. I&#8217;ve written for the Sunday P-G, so I know they really limit the length of your column. I hope this means we can hear more from her in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Forum: Medicare for all: &#8220;Some Americans believe that countries like Australia, Canada and nearly all of Europe have &#8216;socialized medicine.&#8217; For many, it&#8217;s a vague concept that often conjures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Forum: Medicare for all (&#8220;Australian Rules&#8221;)&#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":[32,126,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-off","category-australia","category-us-world-health-care-comparisons"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}