{"id":5418,"date":"2009-09-16T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2009-09-15T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T03:47:24","slug":"medicus-defungo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5418","title":{"rendered":"Medicus Defungo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would America&#8217;s health care system look like with half as many physicians?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p>Pass Obamacare.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=337909690110379\">65%, of doctors<\/a> say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan.<\/p>\n<p>Four of nine doctors, or 45%, said they &#8220;would consider leaving their practice  or taking an early retirement&#8221; if Congress passes the plan the Democratic  majority and White House have in mind.<\/p>\n<p>More than seven in 10 doctors, or 71% \u2014 the most lopsided response in the poll \u2014  answered &#8220;no&#8221; when asked if they believed &#8220;the government can cover 47 million  more people and that it will cost less money and the quality of care will be  better.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last one to leave, please turn off that x-ray thingee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would America&#8217;s health care system look like with half as many physicians? Let&#8217;s find out. Pass Obamacare. 65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan. Four of nine doctors, or 45%, said they &#8220;would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement&#8221; if Congress passes the plan the Democratic majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","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\/5418","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}