{"id":161,"date":"2010-10-28T00:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-10-28T00:37:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T00:37:32","slug":"why-we-needed-and-still-need-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Why we needed (and still need) Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/a-reminder-of-where-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Carroll at the Incidental Economist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>As the rhetoric heats up before the election, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to give you a  quick reminder* of why we needed (and still need) health care reform:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-10990\" href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?attachment_id=10990\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Insured OECD\" src=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Insured-OECD-500x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"433\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>That thick red line is the United States.\u00c2\u00a0 For the record, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re  beating Mexico, Turkey, and Chile.\u00c2\u00a0 But every other OECD country \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>every single other one listed there<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has figured this out.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been spending a lot of time recently talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/what-makes-the-us-health-care-system-so-expensive-introduction\/\">cost<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/how-do-we-rate-the-quality-of-the-us-health-care-system-introduction\/\">quality<\/a> of the health care system, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not forget access.\u00c2\u00a0 We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re  terrible.\u00c2\u00a0 There are so many countries bunched near 100% that you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  see them all; picking out the very few that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t is easy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Say what you will about the PPACA, but it was designed primarily to  get at this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not perfect, and it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get us to 100%  insured, but it will get us closer.\u00c2\u00a0 Our goal at this point should be to  keep pushing to get us up with everyone else, not to return us to this.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Carroll at the Incidental Economist: As the rhetoric heats up before the election, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to give you a quick reminder* of why we needed (and still need) health care reform: That thick red line is the United States.\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=161\">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-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}