{"id":1117,"date":"2010-01-05T10:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:33:19","slug":"how-bad-is-americas-health-care-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2010\/01\/05\/how-bad-is-americas-health-care-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"How bad is America&#8217;s health care spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This chart by Columbia University Statistician Andrew Geldman pretty much sums it up.\u00a0 When the Congressional and Administrative idiots in Washington look at a chart like this and think that nothing more than a mandate for all Americans to buy into an already broken and overpriced system it&#8217;s beyond ignorant and partisan.\u00a0 It&#8217;s practically criminal.\u00a0 And once Obama signs this catastrophic mandate into law any remaining support I have for him is over.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $7681 per person, per year folks &#8211; sick or not.\u00a0 It&#8217;s embarrassing.\u00a0 All of the corporatist ass-clowns supporting the insurance and health care provider profits are an embarrassment to the nation.\u00a0 We should be insuring peoples health, not profits to shareholders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/healthcare.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1118\" title=\"healthcare\" src=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/healthcare.JPG\" alt=\"healthcare\" width=\"482\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/healthcare.JPG 482w, https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/healthcare-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart by Columbia University Statistician Andrew Geldman pretty much sums it up.\u00a0 When the Congressional and Administrative idiots in Washington look at a chart like this and think that nothing more than a mandate for all Americans to buy into an already broken and overpriced system it&#8217;s beyond ignorant and partisan.\u00a0 It&#8217;s practically criminal.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2010\/01\/05\/how-bad-is-americas-health-care-spending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How bad is America&#8217;s health care spending?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}