{"id":10614,"date":"2009-09-07T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2009-09-07T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:32:07","slug":"matt-taibbi-sick-and-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10614","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi: Sick and Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>How Washington is screwing up health care reform \u2013 and why it may take a revolt to fix it<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Matt Taibbi, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/29988909\/sick_and_wrong\">3 September 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/taibbi.rssoundingboard.com\/health-care-reform-sick-and-wrong\"> Watch Matt Taibbi break down his report on the sad state of health care reform in his blog, Taibblog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It&#8217;s become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment \u2014 a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn&#8217;t be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/29988909\/sick_and_wrong\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The health care industry is the epitome of &#8220;the American experiment&#8221;, a nightmare that only the darkest of criminal minds would execute and sustain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Washington is screwing up health care reform \u2013 and why it may take a revolt to fix it Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 3 September 2009 Watch Matt Taibbi break down his report on the sad state of health care &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10614\">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-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","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=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10623,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}