{"id":178448,"date":"2018-11-24T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/24\/only-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2018-11-24T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T02:14:00","slug":"only-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/24\/only-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Only In the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Insurance groups are recommending GoFundMe as official policy &#8211; where customers can die if they can\u2019t raise the goal in time &#8211; but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable. <\/p>\n<p>h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanRiffle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DanRiffle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zetPW0MgDd\">pic.twitter.com\/zetPW0MgDd<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ocasio2018\/status\/1066351594843844608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, this a copy of a letter from an insurer that is asking someone to do a GoFundMe before they will approve a procedure. <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vYuwdHZ.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/vYuwdHZ.jpg\" width=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rightly horrified by this, and so should we all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance groups are recommending GoFundMe as official policy &#8211; where customers can die if they can\u2019t raise the goal in time &#8211; but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable. h\/t @DanRiffle pic.twitter.com\/zetPW0MgDd \u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 24, 2018 Yes, this a copy of a letter from an insurer that is asking someone to do &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":[368,364,463,462,374],"class_list":["post-178448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-healthcare","tag-insurance","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178448"}],"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=178448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}