{"id":890,"date":"2010-01-22T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T13:15:39","slug":"healthcare-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama bet the farm on health care reform, then did nearly nothing to help its passage, and got what\u00a0 he deserved.\u00a0 Of course, we deserve better.\u00a0 We deserved a decent health care bill in the Senate that wasn&#8217;t held hostage by Senator Nelson.\u00a0 We deserved <strong>something<\/strong> that improved the circumstances of a good chunk of 45 million Americans, just as many are put at risk because of lack of health care, thanks to 10% unemployment.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a little math: 10% of 320 million people that live in the U.S.\u00a0 = 32 million people right there.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on Democrats for not getting a bill through.\u00a0 Great shame on them.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have nothing.\u00a0 If the situation remains as is, if we get nothing by the election, then no party is going to touch this issue with a 10 foot pole for our lifetimes.\u00a0 How <strong>good<\/strong> that must be for insurance companies!\u00a0 If we get nothing, our elected officials deserve <strong>less.<\/strong> I say <strong>THROW THE BUMS OUT, ALL OF THEM<\/strong>, Republicans AND Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Including President Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama bet the farm on health care reform, then did nearly nothing to help its passage, and got what\u00a0 he deserved.\u00a0 Of course, we deserve better.\u00a0 We deserved a decent health care bill in the Senate that wasn&#8217;t held hostage by Senator Nelson.\u00a0 We deserved something that improved the circumstances of a good chunk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthcare Debacle&#8221;<\/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":[30,4],"tags":[155,266,309,43,154],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-politics","tag-democrats","tag-health-care","tag-outrage","tag-president-bush","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}