{"id":32178,"date":"2017-04-24T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32178"},"modified":"2017-04-14T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T15:24:49","slug":"qotd-introducing-socialized-medicine-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/qotd-introducing-socialized-medicine-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Introducing socialized medicine in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are things left behind, in that past I came from, things I can easily live without. First there\u2019s the lack of access to medical care. Most Europeans who are happy with socialized medicine are happy because at the time it was introduced it was a huge step up over what was available at the beginning of the century \u2014 when it was introduced there. If all you have in the way of treatment is a local nurse who administers shots, the local pharmacist which (say, apropos nothing) will change dressings on the back you completely skinned while seaside-cliff climbing (or rather falling from. I managed to turn around and take the slope on my back.  I still don\u2019t remember\/have no idea how we kept mom from seeing the dressings) and the occasional overworked, over harried doctor who will do house calls at a prohibitive price if you\u2019re seriously ill, yeah. Socialized medicine is an improvement over that. I don\u2019t think the progressives (I almost typed primitives \u2014 curse you, auto-correct mind) who push for socialized medicine understand that it\u2019s not an improvement even over the f*cked up bureaucracy of the US. They tend to live in a state of envy of the fact that France has a pony and imagine that pony neither craps nor eats.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah A. Hoyt, <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2015\/07\/12\/being-a-time-traveler\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Being a Time Traveler&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-07-12.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are things left behind, in that past I came from, things I can easily live without. First there\u2019s the lack of access to medical care. Most Europeans who are happy with socialized medicine are happy because at the time it was introduced it was a huge step up over what was available at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,66,7,41],"tags":[557,91,162],"class_list":["post-32178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-health-science","category-history","category-quotations","tag-portugal","tag-poverty","tag-socializedmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8n0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32179,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32178\/revisions\/32179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}