{"id":11227,"date":"2009-10-02T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11227"},"modified":"2009-10-02T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T18:43:45","slug":"don-mccanne-two-unacceptable-policy-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11227","title":{"rendered":"Don McCanne: Two unacceptable policy flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Don McCanne<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pnhp.org\/news\/quote_of_the_day.php\">2 October 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two difficult issues that stem from using private health plans as the model for reform include: 1) Can you mandate individuals to buy an insurance plan they can&#8217;t afford?, and 2) Can you allow insurers free rein on using premium dollars for their own purposes rather than spending them on health care? Let&#8217;s see how the Senate Finance Committee approached these.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/pnhp.org\/news\/quote_of_the_day.php\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don McCanne 2 October 2009 Two difficult issues that stem from using private health plans as the model for reform include: 1) Can you mandate individuals to buy an insurance plan they can&#8217;t afford?, and 2) Can you allow insurers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11227\">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-11227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2V5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11229,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11227\/revisions\/11229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}