{"id":11740,"date":"2010-03-26T18:59:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/the-health-care-debate-what-its-really-about\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:59:49","slug":"the-health-care-debate-what-its-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/the-health-care-debate-what-its-really-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The Health Care Debate:  What It&#8217;s Really About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2010\/03\/26\/health-care-a-culture-issue\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">.&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/2010\/03\/26\/fidel-castro-congratulates-obama-for-health-care-bill\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Fidel congratulates Obama<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">. Excerpt from the second article:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Doctors haven\u2019t benefited very much,&#0160; either, from&#0160;Cuba\u2019s health care \u201cmiracle.\u201d&#0160;Because they earn the equivalent of only about $20 U.S. per month, Cuban physicians&#0160;have quit the medical profession in droves \u2014 turning instead to the&#0160;only industry that offers them any degree of economic opportunity: the Cuban tourism industry. It is not uncommon to see former doctors driving cabs, working as tour guides, or waiting tables in restaurants and family inns in Havana.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">People need to bear in mind that there is more to health care than health care insurance.&#0160; The best coverage in the world is worthless without health care providers: doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and all the rest.&#0160; Socialist schemes,&#0160;based as they are on ignorance of human nature, &#0160;remove incentives.&#0160; Why would any one put up with the rigors of medical school, internship, long hours, malpractice harrassment and the like to work for the government?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here.&#0160; Fidel congratulates Obama. Excerpt from the second article: Doctors haven\u2019t benefited very much,&#0160; either, from&#0160;Cuba\u2019s health care \u201cmiracle.\u201d&#0160;Because they earn the equivalent of only about $20 U.S. per month, Cuban physicians&#0160;have quit the medical profession in droves \u2014 turning instead to the&#0160;only industry that offers them any degree of economic opportunity: the Cuban tourism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/the-health-care-debate-what-its-really-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Health Care Debate:  What It&#8217;s Really About&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740","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=11740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}