{"id":3176,"date":"2009-07-31T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2009-07-31T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T20:18:57","slug":"krugman-on-health-care-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/07\/31\/krugman-on-health-care-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman on Health Care Realities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/31\/opinion\/31krugman.html?pagewanted=print\">Well done<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153keep your government hands off my Medicare.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t having any of it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a funny story \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but it illustrates the extent to which health reform must climb a wall of misinformation. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just that many Americans don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand what President Obama is proposing; many people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the way American health care works right now. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand, in particular, that getting the government involved in health care wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a radical step: the government is already deeply involved, even in private insurance.<\/p>\n<p>And that government involvement is the only reason our system works at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to explain what I think of as obvious, but apparently isn&#8217;t.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done: At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153keep your government hands off my Medicare.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t having any of it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}