{"id":2543,"date":"2006-08-30T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2006-08-30T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T15:53:00","slug":"ideologically-inconvenient-successfully-socialised-military-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/08\/30\/11\/53\/ideologically-inconvenient-successfully-socialised-military-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideologically Inconvenient Successfully Socialised Military Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1376238,00.html\">The VA runs the largest integrated health-care system in the [United States] &#8230; this government-managed health-care program&#8211;socialized medicine on a small scale&#8211;is beating the marketplace &#8230; Males 65 years and older receiving VA care had about a 40% lower risk of death than those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, whose care is provided through private health plans or HMOs &#8230; The VA&#8217;s cost per patient has remained steady during the past 10 years. The cost of private care has jumped about 40% in that same period &#8230; Congress has no plans to enlarge the scope of veterans&#8217; health care &#8230; it&#8217;s becoming more and more &#8220;ideologically inconvenient for some to have such a stellar health-delivery system being run by the government&#8221;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VA runs the largest integrated health-care system in the [United States] &#8230; this government-managed health-care program&#8211;socialized medicine on a small scale&#8211;is beating the marketplace &#8230; Males 65 years and older receiving VA care&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}