{"id":8366,"date":"2013-11-13T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/13\/bill-clintons-health-care-blather\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:20:04","slug":"bill-clintons-health-care-blather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/13\/bill-clintons-health-care-blather\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton&#8217;s Health Care Blather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Jonathan Chait <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/11\/clinton-endorses-keep-your-plan-wont-say-how.html\" target=\"_self\">has<\/a> Bubba&#39;s number:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"parbase section entrytext\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you want to make sure every healthy person paying low rates in the individual market right now can keep their [sic] plan, then you have two choices. One is to abolish Obamacare altogether, which means making it impossible for people with preexisting conditions to get affordable insurance. Clinton doesn\u2019t want to do that \u2014 he continues to endorse the law. The second is to come up with some other source of funding to compensate insurance companies for their losses. Clinton doesn\u2019t say where that money would come from.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"parbase section entrytext\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When Clinton delivered a well-received speech at the Democratic National Convention last summer, President Obama joked he should appoint the former president as \u201cSecretary of Explaining Stuff.\u201d Of course, if he actually had a job like that, he would be fired within days.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Chait has Bubba&#39;s number: If you want to make sure every healthy person paying low rates in the individual market right now can keep their [sic] plan, then you have two choices. One is to abolish Obamacare altogether, which means making it impossible for people with preexisting conditions to get affordable insurance. Clinton doesn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/13\/bill-clintons-health-care-blather\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Clinton&#8217;s Health Care Blather&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}