{"id":199133,"date":"2007-09-04T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/04\/a-great-post-on-the-healthcare-crisis\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T10:11:00","slug":"a-great-post-on-the-healthcare-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/04\/a-great-post-on-the-healthcare-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Post on the Healthcare Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article.  It&#8217;s about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2007\/08\/28\/we_are_all_uninsured_now\/\">the colmnist listening to Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s concerns about her son and grandson, who is uninsurable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As I listened, a light dawned: O&#8217;Connor and the rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured. We too face terrible, albeit more remote, healthcare risks &#8212; the risk that our employer will drop our plan, that Medicare will go bust, that our plan won&#8217;t cover our needs, that premiums will eat us alive, that our doctor will stop taking our insurance, that long-term care will wipe us out, and that our uninsured friends and family members will need major financial help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahablog.com\/2007\/08\/28\/we-are-all-uninsured-now\/\">the Mahablog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article. It&#8217;s about the colmnist listening to Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s concerns about her son and grandson, who is uninsurable. As I listened, a light dawned: O&#8217;Connor and the rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured. We too face terrible, albeit more remote, healthcare risks &#8212; the risk that our employer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199133"}],"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=199133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}