{"id":3832,"date":"2009-07-17T18:19:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T07:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2009-07-17T18:19:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T07:19:58","slug":"u-s-healthcare-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3832","title":{"rendered":"U.S. healthcare chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3834 aligncenter\" title=\"healthcare_reduced\" src=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_reduced.JPG\" alt=\"healthcare_reduced\" width=\"507\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_reduced.JPG 507w, https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_reduced-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This chart is the funniest thing I&#8217;ve seen so far this week. You can view the full version of it <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.house.gov\/gopleader\/House-Democrats-Health-Plan.pdf\">here<\/a>. To be fair, it&#8217;s just something the Republicans cooked up to mock the Democrats&#8217; plans to reform healthcare in the U.S., so it&#8217;s meant to be frighteningly complex and byzantine. Even so, it&#8217;s clear that the health care system is a huge mess that I wouldn&#8217;t want to be tangled in. I&#8217;m a libertarian, but healthcare is one of those things that I think government should provide, at least at a basic level, and for this at least, I&#8217;m glad that we have, if not exactly good, at least fairly decent public hospitals here in Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart is the funniest thing I&#8217;ve seen so far this week. You can view the full version of it here. To be fair, it&#8217;s just something the Republicans cooked up to mock the Democrats&#8217; plans to reform healthcare in the U.S., so it&#8217;s meant to be frighteningly complex and byzantine. Even so, it&#8217;s clear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=3832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. healthcare chart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[320,78,204,164],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","tag-charts","tag-funny","tag-health","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}