{"id":1023,"date":"2009-07-22T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2009-07-22T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T13:15:53","slug":"people_who_know_talk_about_hea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"People Who Know Talk About Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/21\/mayo-clinic-calls-house-plan-bad-medicine\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article quoting the Mayo Clinic&#8217;s evaluation of the&nbsp; healthcare reform currently proposed in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Minnesota&#8217;s not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care at affordable costs, blasted the House Democrats&#8217; version of the health care plan as lawmakers continue to grapple with several bills from each chamber and multiple committees. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mayo Clinic said there are some positive elements of the bill, but overall &#8220;the proposed legislation misses the opportunity to help create higher quality, more affordable health care for patients.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In fact, it will do the opposite,&#8221; clinic officials said, because the proposals aren&#8217;t [R]patient-focused or results-oriented. &#8220;The real losers will be the citizens of the United States.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some of the problems with the bill include how to fund it, and the fact that in order to make it work, healthcare would need to be rationed.&nbsp; There is also some question as to whether the government&nbsp;controls of what doctors could charge patients might result in fewer people studying to become doctors.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Generally speaking, the healthcare reform bill as currently stated is a bad bill that will result in less care for the elderly of America and higher taxes for all of us.&nbsp; It needs to be scrapped and rewritten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Times&nbsp;posted an article quoting the Mayo Clinic&#8217;s evaluation of the&nbsp; healthcare reform currently proposed in the House of Representatives. According to the article: &#8220;Minnesota&#8217;s not-for-profit Mayo Clinic, which Mr. Obama has repeatedly hailed as offering top quality care &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}