{"id":3192,"date":"2010-02-08T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:48:18","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-finish-the-job-on-health-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/02\/08\/let%e2%80%99s-finish-the-job-on-health-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Finish The Job On Health Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"finish the job web site\" href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/speakout\/finishthejob?source=20100205_ms_full_lte&#038;signup=false\">this link<\/a><\/strong> to the request to take action to help finish the job.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <strong><a target=\"_blank\" tit;e=\"USA Today article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2010-02-04-health-care-costs_N.htm\">this link<\/a><\/strong> to the <em>USA Today<\/em> story <em>Medical expenses have &#8216;very steep rate of growth&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I followed the suggested action and put the following comment on the Worcester T &amp; G comment board for a news story about health care reform:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHealth care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person &#8212; and is now projected to nearly double by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>So the government&#8217;s spending of $1 trillion over ten years to get some control of health care spending seems a lot smaller when you consider that we are already on a path to spend $25 trillion to $50 trillion over the next 10 years on health care.<\/p>\n<p>When anybody touts a single number with the intention of getting you to gasp at how large it is, you always have to ask, &#8216;Compared to what?&#8217;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the request to take action to help finish the job. Follow this link to the USA Today story Medical expenses have &#8216;very steep rate of growth&#8217; I followed the suggested action and put the following comment on the Worcester T &amp; G comment board for a news story about health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greenbergs-law-of-the-media","7":"category-stevegsposts","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3199,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}