{"id":39192,"date":"2013-10-22T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39192"},"modified":"2013-10-22T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:58:07","slug":"duckspeak-part-cxxviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39192","title":{"rendered":"Duckspeak, Part CXXVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del>Death Panels don&#8217;t exist<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2013\/10\/canada_has_death_panels_and_that_s_a_good_thing.html\">Death Panels <em>always<\/em> existed, citizen<\/a>. \u00a0And They are a wonderful thing!<\/p>\n<p>(Note to anyone who&#8217;s ever worked in health insurance: you know that Death Panels have existed for decades. \u00a0It&#8217;s called &#8220;Care Management&#8221;, and HMOs have been doing them since the seventies or eighties. And while the linked article relates to Canada, Obamacare is no different. \u00a0I present this mainly as an academic exercise, so you can see if your lefty friends start changing the spin they put out&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death Panels don&#8217;t exist Death Panels always existed, citizen. \u00a0And They are a wonderful thing! (Note to anyone who&#8217;s ever worked in health insurance: you know that Death Panels have existed for decades. \u00a0It&#8217;s called &#8220;Care Management&#8221;, and HMOs have been doing them since the seventies or eighties. And while the linked article relates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192","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=39192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39193,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions\/39193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}