{"id":4396,"date":"2008-10-07T16:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T21:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2008-10-07T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T21:56:43","slug":"ipa-5000-doctors-challenge-private-insurance-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"IPA: 5,000 Doctors Challenge Private-Insurance System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Institute for Public Accuracy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=1832\">October 7, 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 5,000 U.S. physicians have signed an open letter calling on the candidates for president and Congress &#8220;to stand up for the health of the American people and implement a nonprofit, single-payer national health insurance system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the nation&#8217;s private-insurance-based model is failing by denying needed medical care to millions, wasting resources and driving up costs, the doctors say that a publicly financed system is &#8220;the sole hope for affordable, comprehensive coverage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A single-payer health system could realize administrative savings of more than $300 billion annually &#8212; enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co-payments and deductibles for all Americans,&#8221; they write, adding that it would also slow cost increases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"www.accuracy.org\/newsrelease.php?articleId=1832\">Read More<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institute for Public Accuracy October 7, 2008 Over 5,000 U.S. physicians have signed an open letter calling on the candidates for president and Congress &#8220;to stand up for the health of the American people and implement a nonprofit, single-payer national &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4396\">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-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-18U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","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=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4397,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}