{"id":146,"date":"2010-10-21T22:37:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-10-22T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:50:37","slug":"our-health-care-costs-and-the-quality-of-our-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Our Health-Care Costs and Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Incidental Economist is looking at our health care system in depth.\u00c2\u00a0 In two ten-part series, the author (who is actually a physician) looks into what&#8217;s behind results that have been well reported &#8212; that we are first in cost and last in life expectancy.\u00c2\u00a0 The first series,\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/what-makes-the-us-health-care-system-so-expensive-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\">about costs<\/a>, is complete; the second, <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/how-do-we-rate-the-quality-of-the-us-health-care-system-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\">about quality<\/a>, is at the half-way point.\u00c2\u00a0 Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Above-expected-500x406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-148\" title=\"Above-expected-500x406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Above-expected-500x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Above-expected-500x406.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Above-expected-500x406-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Life-Expectancy-500x258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"Life-Expectancy-500x258\" src=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Life-Expectancy-500x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Life-Expectancy-500x258.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Life-Expectancy-500x258-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Incidental Economist is looking at our health care system in depth.\u00c2\u00a0 In two ten-part series, the author (who is actually a physician) looks into what&#8217;s behind results that have been well reported &#8212; that we are first in cost &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}