{"id":194187,"date":"2008-10-17T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/17\/us-has-a-3rd-world-health-care-system\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T05:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:53:00","slug":"us-has-a-3rd-world-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/17\/us-has-a-3rd-world-health-care-system\/","title":{"rendered":"US Has a 3rd World Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The money quote is, &#8220;This international gap has widened even though the United States devotes a far greater share of its national wealth to health care than other countries. In 2006, Americans spent $6,714 per capita on health \u2014 more than twice the average of other industrialized countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The gap referred to is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/16\/health\/16infant.html?_r=1&amp;em&amp;oref=slogin\">infant mortality in the United States<\/a>, and our numbers stink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The money quote is, &#8220;This international gap has widened even though the United States devotes a far greater share of its national wealth to health care than other countries. In 2006, Americans spent $6,714 per capita on health \u2014 more than twice the average of other industrialized countries.&#8221; The gap referred to is infant mortality &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1046,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-healthcare","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194187"}],"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=194187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}