{"id":2399,"date":"2010-03-26T13:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/why_are_people_\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:29:29","slug":"why_are_people_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/why_are_people_\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are People Such Shills For The Health Insurance Industry Status Quo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I see it the financing mechanism that is health care insurance adds exactly zero to the quality of health care that I get. If I knew of a better option, I could walk away from Blue Cross today and not feel the slightest loss.<br \/>\nAnd yet some people act as if the sky is falling over the fact that insurance companies are now subject to more regulations (which promote equality).<br \/>\nWhat are people so attached to? I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/why_are_people_\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Why Are People Such Shills For The Health Insurance Industry Status Quo?\"><p>As I see it the financing mechanism that is health care insurance adds exactly zero to the quality of health care that I get. If I knew of a better option, I could walk away from Blue Cross today and not feel the slightest loss. And yet some people act as if the sky is [&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-2399","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\/2399","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=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}