{"id":176860,"date":"2020-03-04T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/04\/profoundly-depressing-quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T00:54:00","slug":"profoundly-depressing-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/04\/profoundly-depressing-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Profoundly Depressing Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 110%; font-variant: small-caps;\">But that will be a heavy lift indeed with a health care system geared above all to price-gouge sick people out of as much money as possible.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Ryan Cooper at <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles-amp\/899359\/why-america-vulnerable-coronavirus\"><i>The Week<\/i><\/a> explaining just why America is not equipped to handle COVID-19<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Between millions with no sick leave, a healthcare system which is primary about looting, no meaningful childcare, and a public health system which has been shut down and privatized over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, Bulgaria is probably better equipped to handle something like this than the United States is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that will be a heavy lift indeed with a health care system geared above all to price-gouge sick people out of as much money as possible. \u2014Ryan Cooper at The Week explaining just why America is not equipped to handle COVID-19 Between millions with no sick leave, a healthcare system which is primary about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,364,463,572,460],"class_list":["post-176860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-healthcare","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}