{"id":1377,"date":"2009-06-16T08:31:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2009-06-16T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:31:43","slug":"out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/06\/16\/out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is essential reading if you are interested in the future of health care in this country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health care is by far the most expensive in the world. In Washington, the aim of health-care reform is not just to extend medical coverage to everybody but also to bring costs under control. Spending on doctors, hospitals, drugs, and the like now consumes more than one of every six dollars we earn. The financial burden has damaged the global competitiveness of American businesses and bankrupted millions of families, even those with insurance. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also devouring our government. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The greatest threat to America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fiscal health is not Social Security,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d President Barack Obama said in a March speech at the White House. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the investments that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made to rescue our economy during this crisis. By a wide margin, the biggest threat to our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s balance sheet is the skyrocketing cost of health care. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even close.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/06\/01\/090601fa_fact_gawande\">Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting &amp; Essays: The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is essential reading if you are interested in the future of health care in this country. Our country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health care is by far the most expensive in the world. In Washington, the aim of health-care reform is not just to extend medical coverage to everybody but also to bring costs under control. Spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-md","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}