{"id":7141,"date":"2014-11-13T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:59:33","slug":"opposition-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-often-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/opposition-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-often-ironic\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to the Affordable Care Act is often ironic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/495448\/abqnewsseeker\/opposition-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-often-ironic.html\">Opposition to the Affordable Care Act is often ironic | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a> by Winthrop Quigley<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have long found it amusing that so many people describe the Affordable Care Act as socialism. It is a law that is designed to secure 40 million new customers for the for-profit insurance industry so that the bills of many thousands of for-profit health care providers can be paid.  <\/p>\n<p>A single-payer system whereby tax dollars cover every citizen\u2019s medical costs is a government takeover of health care. Obamacare is no such thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/495448\/abqnewsseeker\/opposition-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-often-ironic.html\">Opposition to the Affordable Care Act is often ironic | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ej-dionne-will-obamacare-separate-scalia-from-his-principles\/2014\/11\/12\/53af138a-6a9b-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html?wprss=rss_ej-dionne\">Will Obamacare separate Scalia from his principles? &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> by E.J. Dionne<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s a hypothetical for you: First, the Supreme Court issues a ruling that installs a conservative president. Then, he appoints two conservative Supreme Court justices who <i>then<\/i> join with three of their colleagues to make mincemeat of the greatest achievement of a progressive president elected by a clear majority. If such a thing happened in any other country, would we still call it a democratic republic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ej-dionne-will-obamacare-separate-scalia-from-his-principles\/2014\/11\/12\/53af138a-6a9b-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html?wprss=rss_ej-dionne\">Will Obamacare separate Scalia from his principles? &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition to the Affordable Care Act is often ironic | Albuquerque Journal News by Winthrop Quigley I have long found it amusing that so many people describe the Affordable Care Act as socialism. It is a law that is designed to secure 40 million new customers for the for-profit insurance industry so that the bills &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/opposition-to-the-affordable-care-act-is-often-ironic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Opposition to the Affordable Care Act is often ironic<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","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=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}