{"id":10820,"date":"2011-03-23T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T12:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/celebrating-the-first-anniversary-of-obamacare\/"},"modified":"2011-03-23T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T12:24:37","slug":"celebrating-the-first-anniversary-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/celebrating-the-first-anniversary-of-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Celebrating&#8217; the First Anniversary of ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is a caucus of GOP physicians in the House of Representatives.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/219996.php\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> they reflect on ObamaCare&#39;s first year.&#0160; It&#39;s good that there are M.D.s in the Congress.&#0160; Negatively, physicians are not lawyers.&#0160; Positively, they are scientifically trained without being mere theoreticians: they diagnose, they cut, they sew.&#0160; They are the plumbers and the auto mechanics of the human body.&#0160; They grapple at close quarters with recalcitrant matter.&#0160; They don&#39;t just talk, write, and argue.&#0160; Not that the latter aren&#39;t important; they are.&#0160; But balance is also important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We need more doctors, engineers, and businessmen in government &#8212; and fewer lawyers.&#0160; And a few working stiffs, too.&#0160; There are truck drivers and pipe fitters&#0160;who could do the job.&#0160; How can a government top-heavy with lawyers be representative of the folks?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a caucus of GOP physicians in the House of Representatives.&#0160; Here they reflect on ObamaCare&#39;s first year.&#0160; It&#39;s good that there are M.D.s in the Congress.&#0160; Negatively, physicians are not lawyers.&#0160; Positively, they are scientifically trained without being mere theoreticians: they diagnose, they cut, they sew.&#0160; They are the plumbers and the auto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/celebrating-the-first-anniversary-of-obamacare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Celebrating&#8217; the First Anniversary of ObamaCare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}