{"id":1959,"date":"2006-05-03T00:43:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T04:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/health_care_across_the_pond\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T04:43:52","slug":"health_care_across_the_pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/health_care_across_the_pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Across The Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn&#8217;t as important to most Americans as last week&#8217;s <em>American Idol<\/em>, but some of us <a title=\"Study shows Americans sicker than English\" href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/health\/1500AP_Sick_America.html\">find it interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>White, middle-aged Americans &#8211; even those who are rich &#8211; are far less healthy than their peers in England, according to stunning new research that erases misconceptions and has experts scratching their heads.<br \/>\nAmericans had higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, strokes, lung disease and cancer &#8211; findings that held true no matter what income or education level.<br \/>\nThose dismal results are despite the fact that U.S. health care spending is double what England spends on each of its citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Americans spend about $5,200 per person on health care.  And gasoline prices are our real national crisis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/05\/health_care_across_the_pond\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Health Care Across The Pond\"><p>I know this isn&#8217;t as important to most Americans as last week&#8217;s American Idol, but some of us find it interesting: White, middle-aged Americans &#8211; even those who are rich &#8211; are far less healthy than their peers in England, according to stunning new research that erases misconceptions and has experts scratching their heads. Americans [&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-1959","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\/1959","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=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}