{"id":1115,"date":"2009-08-22T17:14:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-08-22T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:14:01","slug":"point_by_point_on_healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Point By Point On Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2009\/08\/obamacarepoint_and_counterpoin.html\">American Thinker<\/a>&nbsp;has a point by point rebuttal of President Obama&#8217;s claims on his healthcare bill.&nbsp; Please follow the link and read the entire article, but I will try to summarize it here.<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; We need health insurance reform&#8211;not healthcare reform.<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; The government has caused our problem&#8211;we do not have free market healthcare.&nbsp; The government controls $.60 of every dollar spent on health care.<\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp; The government has caused medical prices to skyroket&#8211;nothing can be done by the private insurance companies that has not been done by Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>4.&nbsp; Nearly thirteen million Americans are without health insurance.&nbsp; No one in the United States is without healthcare.&nbsp; Refusal of healthcare to an individual is illegal.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>5.&nbsp;&nbsp; A government option will increase costs and lower the quality of care.&nbsp; Look at what has happened to Medicare and Medicaid.&nbsp; Rationing will have to be used to keep costs down.<\/p>\n<p>6.&nbsp; Private insurance will be phased out in five years&#8211;read the bill.<\/p>\n<p>This is only the beginning of the facts that show the lies that we are being told.&nbsp; Again, please read the full article.&nbsp; At the end of the article, the Doctor who wrote it shows what he has to do to submit a claim for Medicare.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s American Thinker&nbsp;has a point by point rebuttal of President Obama&#8217;s claims on his healthcare bill.&nbsp; Please follow the link and read the entire article, but I will try to summarize it here. 1.&nbsp; We need health insurance reform&#8211;not healthcare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1115\">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-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","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=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}