{"id":44337,"date":"2014-05-28T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44337"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:46:54","slug":"free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44337","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Free&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dental care in Australia is free.\u00a0 So everybody wants it.\u00a0 So you have to wait your turn.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/19\/dental-funding-waiting-lists-surge\">Might take a bit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cSpringborg said before the NPA, patients were waiting\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">up to 10 years<\/span>\u00a0for dental work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And what is this NPA?\u00a0 The government tossed 200 Million Australian Dollars into the fund to allow patients to go outside the system to private dentists, a one-time shot to reduce the wait which now is under a year.\u00a0 The government can\u2019t afford to repeat the subsidy, so wait times will rise again.\u00a0 It\u2019s only a toothache, right?\u00a0 What\u2019s a few months wait when it\u2019s FREEEEEE!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The defining trait of liberals is that they all seem to assume that if you wish hard enough for a miracle &#8211; free dental care, universal healthcare without raising taxes or the deficit or degrading healthcare, raising minimum wages without unintended consequences to employment and prices &#8211; that a unicorn will descend from the skies with the means to make it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Dental care in Australia is free.\u00a0 So everybody wants it.\u00a0 So you have to wait your turn.\u00a0\u00a0Might take a bit. \u00a0\u201cSpringborg said before the NPA, patients were waiting\u00a0up to 10 years\u00a0for dental work.\u201d \u00a0And what is this NPA?\u00a0 The government tossed 200 Million Australian Dollars into the fund 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":[66,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44337","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=44337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44416,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44337\/revisions\/44416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}