{"id":67661,"date":"2016-08-28T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67661"},"modified":"2016-08-28T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T18:03:58","slug":"want-to-see-single-payer-in-action-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67661","title":{"rendered":"Want to See &#8220;Single-Payer&#8221; Healthcare In Action?  Read This."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linked story pretty much says it all. You might want to grab a tissue (and a dose of high-blood pressure medicine, if you think you might need it) before reading the link, though.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/seniors-care-home-surrey-1.3735013\"><b><i>&#8216;This is the saddest photo I have ever taken,&#8217;<br \/>\nwoman says of grandparents forced to live apart<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A real-world variant of the &#8220;golden rule&#8221; is operative here: &#8220;He who pays the gold makes the rules.&#8221; And in Canada, the folks running Canada&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>Socialized<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 single payer medicine pay the gold &#8211; and make these kinds of rules.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, under US &#8220;single payer&#8221; medicine it will be an agency of the Federal government effectively making those decisions &#8211; just like in Canada. That&#8217;s the same folks that have brought us those &#8220;wonderful examples of common sense, simplicity, and bureaucratic flexibility&#8221; called the IRS, the EPA, the BLM, and HHS.<\/p>\n<p>But remember: &#8220;single payer&#8221; will fix American healthcare&#8217;s &#8220;problems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Just like it has in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked story pretty much says it all. You might want to grab a tissue (and a &hellip; <a title=\"Want to See &#8220;Single-Payer&#8221; Healthcare In Action?  Read This.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67661\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Want to See &#8220;Single-Payer&#8221; Healthcare In Action?  Read This.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,88,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-health-care-debate","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}