{"id":1232,"date":"2009-10-03T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2009-10-03T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T20:40:46","slug":"the_choices_we_take_for_grante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"The Choices We Take For Granted In The Current American Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two sources for this article (they are essentially the same thing, but I need to credit both), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OYuA0iH662U&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/03\/video-tracy-walshs-story-and-obamacare\/\">Hot Air<\/a>.&nbsp; Please follow one of the links and watch the video.&nbsp; The person speaking on the video is Tracy Walsh, a young mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer.&nbsp; She is speaking about her experience in dealing with the cancer while insured by a private insurance agency.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her story reminds us that America currently has a very good system of healthcare.&nbsp; It is illegal to deny care to anyone who shows up at an emergency room with a medical problem.&nbsp; No one in this country is currently being denied healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things we could fix in the healthcare system without creating more problems than we solve.&nbsp; Think automobile insurance&#8211;portability of health insurance across state lines, a risk pool for those with pre-existing conditions, and tort reform (common sense&nbsp;in legal cases involving medical issues).&nbsp; None of these changes would drastically increase the role of government in health insurance&#8211;that may be why they are not getting the attention they should be getting.&nbsp; My recommendation in regard to the current healthcare legislation is to scrap the whole thing and start again.&nbsp; There are charges that people will die if we do not pass the current healthcare legislation; I can guarantee that people will die if we do.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two sources for this article (they are essentially the same thing, but I need to credit both), YouTube&nbsp;and Hot Air.&nbsp; Please follow one of the links and watch the video.&nbsp; The person speaking on the video is Tracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1232\">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-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","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=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}