{"id":9898,"date":"2010-04-07T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2010-04-07T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T13:21:48","slug":"american-people-show-us-the-swag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9898","title":{"rendered":"American People:  &#8220;Show Us The Swag&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance companies report that people, fresh from wondering when Obama would pay their mortgage and put gas in the car, are pawing after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2010\/04\/06\/91696\/health-care-overhaul-spawns-mass.html\">free health care:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors&#8217; offices, human resources departments and business groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re saying, &#8216;Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?&#8217; &#8221; said Carrie McLean, a licensed agent for eHealthInsurance.com. The California-based company sells coverage from 185 health insurance carriers in 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>McLean said the call center had been inundated by uninsured consumers who were hoping that the overhaul would translate into instant, affordable coverage. That widespread misconception may have originated in part from distorted rhetoric about the legislation bubbling up from the hyper-partisan debate about it in Washington and some media outlets, such as when opponents denounced it as socialism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or it might be because that&#8217;s <em>exactly how its proponents have been pitching it all along<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance companies report that people, fresh from wondering when Obama would pay their mortgage and put gas in the car, are pawing after the free health care: Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors&#8217; offices, human resources departments and business groups. &#8220;They&#8217;re saying, &#8216;Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9899,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions\/9899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}