{"id":6434,"date":"2013-10-01T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2013-10-01T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:09:29","slug":"critics-miss-the-point-of-affordable-care-act-abqjournal-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/critics-miss-the-point-of-affordable-care-act-abqjournal-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quigley does it again. Brilliant. Medicare for all!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/272290\/news\/critics-miss-the-point-of-affordable-care-act.html\">Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/author\/wquigley\">Winthrop Quigley \/ Journal Staff Writer<\/a> | 10 hours ago <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/pix\/upfront\/upfront_quigley.jpg\" align=\"right\"\/>Wealthy opponents of the Affordable Care Act \u2013 Obamacare \u2013 in the form of the Club for Growth have launched some absurd television commercials featuring Uncle Sam replacing the kindly family doctor to examine the most private part of a patient\u2019s anatomy. The message is that the government wants to take over your health care. <\/p>\n<p>There are many Americans who would love to see a real government takeover by eliminating the private, for-profit insurance industry and replacing it with that radical, socialistic, alien form of health care finance known as \u2026 Medicare. <\/p>\n<p>As it happens, Obamacare has very little to do with health and everything to do with finance. It is an attempt to rescue the nation\u2019s for-profit health-care financing system from itself. <\/p>\n<p>The United States has a lot of experience with rescuing elements of capitalism from capitalism\u2019s strange propensity to self-destruct. <em>[keep reading]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/272290\/news\/critics-miss-the-point-of-affordable-care-act.html\">Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for that leering Dr Sam, he could be the symbol of the fight against reproductive rights. These fools have no shame at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quigley does it again. Brilliant. Medicare for all! Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online Winthrop Quigley \/ Journal Staff Writer | 10 hours ago Wealthy opponents of the Affordable Care Act \u2013 Obamacare \u2013 in the form of the Club for Growth have launched some absurd television commercials featuring Uncle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/critics-miss-the-point-of-affordable-care-act-abqjournal-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critics miss the point of Affordable Care Act | ABQJournal Online<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}