{"id":198669,"date":"2007-10-19T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/19\/what-ezra-said-mccain-healthcare-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:01:00","slug":"what-ezra-said-mccain-healthcare-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/19\/what-ezra-said-mccain-healthcare-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ezra Said McCain Healthcare Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein, once more showing that he writes better than I ever will. <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/mccain-and-heal.html\">comments on McCain&#8217;s healthcare proposal<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>It&#8217;s another of these plans to sprinkle magical tax credits all across the land that will incentivize folks to buy less health insurance, but do absolutely nothing for the cost of care. Families get a $5,000 tax credit to help them buy insurance, and they can keep what they don&#8217;t use, and so the hope is, they&#8217;ll buy plans with higher deductibles, be unable to afford the deductibles, and will thus buy less care. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" ><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">It&#8217;s like if I tried to make food cheaper by encouraging you to diet<\/span><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love that line on dieting, and it cuts <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">every<\/span> Republican healthcare plan to the quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein, once more showing that he writes better than I ever will. comments on McCain&#8217;s healthcare proposal It&#8217;s another of these plans to sprinkle magical tax credits all across the land that will incentivize folks to buy less health insurance, but do absolutely nothing for the cost of care. Families get a $5,000 tax &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1046,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198669"}],"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=198669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}