{"id":450,"date":"2020-07-31T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2020-07-31T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:29:32","slug":"medicare-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/medicare-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare for all?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review Crowhill&#8217;s mild ale, then discuss whether we should extend medicare to everyone. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s good or bad about that? Should everyone be covered by Medicare, or some other single-payer plan? <\/p>\n<p>Before addressing that specific question, they go through Crowhill&#8217;s list of general health care principles. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a free market is the best way we know to ration scarce resources\n<li> profit incentive is the best way we know to get people to invent and invest in cool new stuff\n<li> insurance distorts prices\n<li> we need price transparency when choosing medical services, so people can shop around\n<li> we need a way to know which doctors are good and which are bad, and a way to judge risks\n<li> health care \/ insurance should have nothing to do with your employment\n<li> people should not go bankrupt because of their or their dependents&#8217; illness\n<li> there will always be haves and have nots, no matter what system we put in place <\/ul>\n<p>After reviewing these broad principles, they discuss how those principles relate to Medicare for all. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/15427613\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review Crowhill&#8217;s mild ale, then discuss whether we should extend medicare to everyone. What&#8217;s good or bad about that? Should everyone be covered by Medicare, or some other single-payer plan? Before addressing that specific question, they go through Crowhill&#8217;s list of general health care principles. a free market is the best way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/medicare-for-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medicare for all?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}