{"id":192855,"date":"2009-02-12T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/12\/this-is-despicable-2\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T03:38:00","slug":"this-is-despicable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/12\/this-is-despicable-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Despicable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that big pharma and medical device manufacturers are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB123423024203966081-lMyQjAxMDI5MzE0MDIxMzAwWj.html\">gearing up to fight a provision in the stimulus bill which would compare outcomes for different treatments<\/a>, so that healthcare professionals would know how they compare to each other, they are claiming that it&#8217;s, &#8221; the first step to government rationing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real reason that they are opposed to this is because selling people expensive s#@$ that does not work  better than the cheap stuff is their business model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that big pharma and medical device manufacturers are gearing up to fight a provision in the stimulus bill which would compare outcomes for different treatments, so that healthcare professionals would know how they compare to each other, they are claiming that it&#8217;s, &#8221; the first step to government rationing.&#8221; The real reason that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1046,978,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192855"}],"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=192855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}