{"id":955,"date":"2007-01-28T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2007-01-28T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T22:48:00","slug":"the-false-promise-of-single-payer-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificresearch.org\/pub\/sab\/health\/speech_sally.html\">The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care<\/a>: &#8220;Speech October 9, 2002<br \/>Sally C. Pipes<br \/>President and Chief Executive Officer<br \/>Pacific Research Institute<br \/>Presented at St. Vincent\u2019s College&#8221;<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/><strong>How many straw men can you count?<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong>I think we need to put a dozen experts from each side in a house for a month. They can have internet access, whatever materials they need. Heck, they can even phone a friend or poll the country, but they need to rebut each other in a factually based manner until they come to some understanding. Pretty good reality show, huh?<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong>I frankly think it will all boil down to Lakoff&#8217;s model of conservative\/liberal:authoritarian\/nurturant world views. If you think the rich deserve to be rich and the poor deserve to be poor, you will never &#8220;accept the premise&#8221; of single payer healthcare.<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong>Cheers.<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care: &#8220;Speech October 9, 2002Sally C. PipesPresident and Chief Executive OfficerPacific Research InstitutePresented at St. Vincent\u2019s College&#8221;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-How many straw men can you count?I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-right-wing-noise-machine"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}