{"id":192100,"date":"2009-05-12T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/12\/snake-oil\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:17:00","slug":"snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/12\/snake-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Barack Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/12\/us\/politics\/12health.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">gotten the medical industry to promise $2 trillion in health care savings over the next 10 years<\/a>, by limiting medical inflation to &#8220;only&#8221; 4.7% a year.<\/p>\n<p>I think that it&#8217;s clear that the medical industry is lying, but I have no clue as to what Obama is up to, except perhaps that this is a preemptive strike to prevent the public option from being discussed&#8230;I&#8217;m not smart enough to figure out another reason.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;d bank on the fact that almost everyone hates their insurance company, and wage <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Jihad<\/span> against them, but that is just me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there is some sort of Obam jujitsu going on here, and I just don&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Barack Obama has gotten the medical industry to promise $2 trillion in health care savings over the next 10 years, by limiting medical inflation to &#8220;only&#8221; 4.7% a year. I think that it&#8217;s clear that the medical industry is lying, but I have no clue as to what Obama is up to, except perhaps &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1045,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192100"}],"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=192100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}