{"id":1336,"date":"2004-12-17T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/affording_healthcare\/"},"modified":"2004-12-17T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T17:58:08","slug":"affording_healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/affording_healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Affording Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do multi-milllionaries with free, employer-funded healthcare plans do to ensure they&#8217;ll be able to see a doctor?  Why, they set up <a title=\"Bush Buys Into Tax-Free Health Savings Account\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/investing\/la-na-health17dec17,1,6894198.story?coll=la-headlines-business-invest\">a health savings account<\/a>, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush may enjoy the best healthcare in America, and for free, too. But that didn&#8217;t stop him this week from setting up a tax-deferred health savings account.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;He currently gets the best healthcare in the world, but when his term ends, he will return to the private sector,&#8221; said Deputy Press Secretary Trent Duffy, adding that Bush also opened the account to set an example.<br \/>\n&#8220;He felt that this was the best move for his current and future healthcare needs,&#8221; Duffy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That George Bush&#8211;he&#8217;s just a regular guy like the rest of us, isn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/affording_healthcare\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Affording Healthcare\"><p>What do multi-milllionaries with free, employer-funded healthcare plans do to ensure they&#8217;ll be able to see a doctor? Why, they set up a health savings account, of course: President Bush may enjoy the best healthcare in America, and for free, too. But that didn&#8217;t stop him this week from setting up a tax-deferred health savings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}