{"id":37018,"date":"2017-02-03T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37018"},"modified":"2017-01-23T14:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:32:30","slug":"qotd-obamacare-or-something-like-it-was-probably-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/03\/qotd-obamacare-or-something-like-it-was-probably-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Obamacare, or something like it, was probably inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Obamacare? Well, here\u2019s the truth of the matter: America is addicted to medical care and demands that it be delivered in infinite quantity, in flawless quality, no matter the cost, as long as no one has to pay anything like full price, directly. Unfortunately, the cost does matter, and even if we were willing to devote infinite resources to medicine, we lack the human quality to provide what\u2019s demanded. Short version: [Obama] <em>had<\/em> to do something; eventually we were going to bankrupt ourselves in the interests of keeping someone\u2019s great-grandmama alive another day or so. I\u2019m not sure what that something was, mind you, and I am pretty sure that Obamacare wasn\u2019t it. But, be fair; he really had to try to do something. So will Donald Trump, and I don\u2019t mean just repeal Obamacare. You may as well get used to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Kratman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyjoe.com\/2017\/01\/23\/politics\/free-at-last-deepest-criticisms-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Free at last! Free at last!&#8221;, <em>EveryJoe<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obamacare? Well, here\u2019s the truth of the matter: America is addicted to medical care and demands that it be delivered in infinite quantity, in flawless quality, no matter the cost, as long as no one has to pay anything like full price, directly. Unfortunately, the cost does matter, and even if we were willing to [&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":[8,84,66,41,13],"tags":[158,1037,121,937,162],"class_list":["post-37018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-health-science","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-donaldtrump","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-socializedmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9D4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018","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=37018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37019,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018\/revisions\/37019"}],"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=37018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}