{"id":192687,"date":"2009-03-05T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/05\/obama-health-care-plan-no-single-payer\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:33:00","slug":"obama-health-care-plan-no-single-payer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/05\/obama-health-care-plan-no-single-payer\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Health Care Plan: No Single Payer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Obama sets up a summit on health care reform, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aItjxdHgPnC0&amp;refer=home\">invites everyone but advocates for single payer<\/a>, and finally, when the screaming gets too loud, relents, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com\/talk\/blogs\/connecticut_man1\/2009\/03\/single-payer-victory.php\">invites a hand full of them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This does <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> bode will for his plan.<\/p>\n<p>First, if he is not more ambitious in his initial proposal than his basic desires, it will be cut down to nothing in Congress, and second, the insurance companies are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">evil<\/span>, and any plan that makes supporting their business model a central tenet is doomed to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Obama sets up a summit on health care reform, and invites everyone but advocates for single payer, and finally, when the screaming gets too loud, relents, and invites a hand full of them. This does not bode will for his plan. First, if he is not more ambitious in his initial proposal than his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1046,1045,985,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-regulation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192687"}],"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=192687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}