{"id":10019,"date":"2009-07-23T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10019"},"modified":"2009-07-23T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:24:03","slug":"bruce-a-dixon-is-the-obama-health-care-plan-really-better-than-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10019","title":{"rendered":"Bruce A. Dixon: Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/?q=content\/obama-health-care-plan-really-better-nothing\">22 July 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=10021\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10021\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10021\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=10021\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?fit=500%2C333\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"healthcare_again\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?fit=300%2C199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?fit=500%2C333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"healthcare_again\" title=\"healthcare_again\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?resize=150%2C99 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/healthcare_again.jpg?w=500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Candidate Barack Obama told us to judge his first term by whether he delivers quality affordable health care for all Americans, including nearly fifty million uninsured. So why does his proposal not cover the uninsured till 2013, after the next presidential election when Medicare took only 11 months to cover its first 40 million seniors? Why are corporate media pretending that no opinions exist to Obama&#8217;s left? And why has the public option part of the Obama health care plan shrunk from covering 130 million to only 10 million, with 16 million left uninsured altogether?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/?q=content\/obama-health-care-plan-really-better-nothing\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report, 22 July 2009 Candidate Barack Obama told us to judge his first term by whether he delivers quality affordable health care for all Americans, including nearly fifty million uninsured. So why does his proposal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10019\">Continue reading <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":{"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2BB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10019"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}