{"id":2081,"date":"2008-02-05T05:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T10:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2008-02-05T05:13:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T10:13:40","slug":"heres-an-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Here’s An Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that’s been blocking single-payer health-care in this country – aside from the fact that it’s hideously expensive and, cherry-picked stats aside, tends to leave nations with lowest-common-denominator healthcare – is the hideous cost.<\/p>\n

Madame Putin<\/strike> Hillary has an approach to that:\u00a0hold a gun to peoples’ heads and make <\/em>them pay<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama<\/span> for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This – along with her play during the era of Hillarycare! to turn the Tic party apparatus into a sort of home-grown Stasi<\/em><\/a> to build dossiers on Hillarycare!’s opponents – should make all you Democrats who’ve been yammering about “choice” for the past thirty years (to say nothing of all you “Ashkkkroft Libertarians”) rise up in arms against your presumptive nominee.<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that’s been blocking single-payer health-care in this country – aside from the fact that it’s hideously expensive and, cherry-picked stats aside, tends to leave nations with lowest-common-denominator healthcare – is the hideous cost. Madame Putin Hillary has an approach to that:\u00a0hold a gun to peoples’ heads and make them pay: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}