{"id":1216,"date":"2011-05-09T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2011-05-09T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:23:32","slug":"our-supposed-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Our Supposed Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Let’s do a brief comparison of the U.S. to the civilized world, when it comes to healthcare insurance and what actually happens when a child is born.\u00a0 In Switzerland, when a child is born, both the mother and the child may stay up to five days in the hospital.\u00a0 For even the slightest complication that time gets extended for both.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., an insured mother and her child are entitled two days.\u00a0 If there is a problem with one, as was the case with my new niece (she was jaundiced and required an extra day), she is separated<\/strong> from the mother, who in this case herself spent the night in the hospital lobby so that she could nurse her newborn daughter, three days after having given birth.<\/p>\n

Which would you want for your wife, sister, or daughter?\u00a0 U.S. or civilized?\u00a0 If you answered “civilized”, then you get to answer another question: who are the people who should supervise our profit-oriented health insurance industry, and where are they?\u00a0 I personally would like to know.\u00a0 By the way, here in Switzerland my family and I pay less than most Americans our ages for healthcare, and we’ve not been turned down for anything we needed (in fact we’ve never even had an argument about it).\u00a0 Now- does that change your answer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s do a brief comparison of the U.S. to the civilized world, when it comes to healthcare insurance and what actually happens when a child is born.\u00a0 In Switzerland, when a child is born, both the mother and the child may stay up to five days in the hospital.\u00a0 For even the slightest complication that … Continue reading “Our Supposed Healthcare System”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,6],"tags":[33,497,238,79],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid-stuff","category-us","tag-children","tag-economics","tag-healthcare","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}