{"id":6,"date":"2007-02-11T23:08:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T06:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=6"},"modified":"2007-02-11T23:08:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T06:08:01","slug":"universal-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Universal Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I contemplate a career change, from military related to health related, I wonder how best can we improve the health care system of the US. By now, I think everyone would argee that we have serious problems. It&#8217;s just that no one wants to make the difficult choices to &#8220;fix&#8221; it, or can&#8217;t seem to agree what a &#8220;fix&#8221; would constitute.<\/p>\n<p>One common complaint I hear about universal healthcare is lack of choice (which I can&#8217;t answer to). The other seems to be the sentiment of &#8220;why should my taxes pay for the healthcare of someone [poor,lazy,etc]?&#8221; I think this is incredibly short-sighted. How can our companies, large and small, compete internationally with other companies that don&#8217;t have to worry about pensions or healthcare? Rather than think so parochially about whether a fellow American might deserve your tax dollars in health care, you should worry about some other country&#8217;s citizens stealing your job or livelihood because they are cheaper to employ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I contemplate a career change, from military related to health related, I wonder how best can we improve the health care system of the US. By now, I think everyone would argee that we have serious problems. It&#8217;s just that no one wants to make the difficult choices to &#8220;fix&#8221; it, or can&#8217;t seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}