{"id":487,"date":"2009-11-05T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2009-11-05T07:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:43:58","slug":"healthcare-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/05\/healthcare-at-a-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare at a Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a mailer &#8220;News &#8230; about changes to your healthcare benefits&#8221; from the people who do that stuff for me. In it was this amusing statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea of change may not be particularly welcome at this moment, when our healthcare system is at a crossroads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s consider. Traditionally, a crossroads is where you meet the devil when you want to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Johnson_%28musician%29#Devil_legend\">sell your soul<\/a>. It&#8217;s where you <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burial#Burial_at_cross-roads\">bury a vampire<\/a> after you drive a stake through its cold, black heart. So, yes, I think that&#8217;s precisely the right word. Our nation&#8217;s healthcare system is certainly <em>at a crossroads<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a mailer &#8220;News &#8230; about changes to your healthcare benefits&#8221; from the people who do that stuff for me. In it was this amusing statement: The idea of change may not be particularly welcome at this moment, when our healthcare system is at a crossroads. Let&#8217;s consider. Traditionally, a crossroads is where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-7R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}