{"id":1066,"date":"2011-03-15T11:18:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:18:49","slug":"health-care-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/03\/health-care-rationing\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/11\/the-rationing-switcheroo\/\">The &#8220;Rationing&#8221; Switcheroo &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Paul here. If the Medicare system determines what it will or will not pay for &#8211; the basic medical care coverage &#8211; there should be nothing to preclude a patient from using their own money to get advanced or alternative medical care.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;\">The Declaration of Independence did not declare that we have the right to life, liberty, and the\u00a0<em>all expenses paid<\/em> pursuit of happiness.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Rationing&#8221; Switcheroo &#8211; NYTimes.com. I agree with Paul here. If the Medicare system determines what it will or will not pay for &#8211; the basic medical care coverage &#8211; there should be nothing to preclude a patient from using their own money to get advanced or alternative medical care. The Declaration of Independence did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/03\/health-care-rationing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health Care Rationing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}