{"id":47479,"date":"2014-09-30T06:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47479"},"modified":"2014-09-28T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T21:21:35","slug":"there-will-be-no-swisssure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47479","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be No SwissSure"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the difference between Switzerland and Minnesota?<\/p>\n

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  1. The Swiss don’t have a football team – but if they did, they’d be better than the Vikings<\/li>\n
  2. The Swiss are too smart to socialize their healthcare system<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And it wasn’t even close:\u00a0 62 percent, mostly German, voted to tube the proposal to socialize Switzerland’s healthcare system.<\/p>\n

    Hey, speaking of Minnesota – does any of this sound familiar?<\/p>\n

    “Our health system is among the top performers in the world. Competition between health insurers and freedom of choice for clients play a major role in this,” it added.<\/p>\n

    Going public would have been a major shift for a country whose health system is often hailed abroad as a paragon of efficiency, but is a growing source of frustration at home because of soaring costs…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    And how are the costs soaring?<\/p>\n

    …”Over the past 20 years in Switzerland, health costs have grown 80 percent and insurance premiums 125 percent,” ophthalmologist Michel Matter told AFP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    That’s bad.\u00a0 Nothing like the US healthcare system, between the past ten years and Obamacare, but it’s certainly a problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Still – what do the Swiss know that we – and by “we” I mean “a plurality of our Democrat neighbors” – don’t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What’s the difference between Switzerland and Minnesota? The Swiss don’t have a football team – but if they did, they’d be better than the Vikings The Swiss are too smart to socialize their healthcare system: And it wasn’t even close:\u00a0 62 percent, mostly German, voted to tube the proposal to socialize Switzerland’s healthcare system. Hey, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,311,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-mnsure-debacle","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47479","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=47479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47486,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47479\/revisions\/47486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}