{"id":197820,"date":"2008-01-09T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/09\/us-healthcare-sucks\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:39:00","slug":"us-healthcare-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/09\/us-healthcare-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"US Healthcare Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080108\/hl_nm\/deaths_rankings_dc\">France, Japan and Australia rated best and the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">United States worst<\/span><\/span> in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am totally not surprised.  The US has coasted for 50+ years on the fact that we as a nation were so damn wealthy that we could subscribe to a system that is inefficient and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>That time has passed.  There are transactions, healthcare being one, where the classic free market simply fails.<\/p>\n<p>Whether its single payer or a National Health Service (my favorite), it&#8217;s clear that, to quote Pete Townshend, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Music Must Change<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France, Japan and Australia rated best and the United States worst in new rankings focusing on preventable deaths due to treatable conditions in 19 leading industrialized nations, researchers said on Tuesday. I am totally not surprised. The US has coasted for 50+ years on the fact that we as a nation were so damn wealthy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197820"}],"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=197820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}