{"id":13506,"date":"2009-06-24T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_brooks_on_health_care_reform_something_for_nothing\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T09:02:01","slug":"david_brooks_on_health_care_reform_something_for_nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13506","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks on Health Care Reform: Something for Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> We\u2019ve built an entire health care system (maybe an entire government) on the illusion of something for nothing. Instead of tackling that basic logic, we\u2019ve got a reform process that is trying to evade it.<\/p>\n<p>This would be bad enough in normal times. But the country is already careening toward fiscal ruin. We\u2019ve already passed a nearly $800 billion stimulus package. The public debt is already projected to double over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Health care reform is important, but it is not worth bankrupting the country over. If this process goes as it has been going \u201d\u201d with grand rhetoric and superficial cost containment \u201d\u201d then we will be far better off killing this effort and starting over in a few years. Maybe then there will be leaders willing to look at the options staring them in the face.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/23\/opinion\/23brooks.html?_r=1\">Read it all.  Thank God for the CBO, I say<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve built an entire health care system (maybe an entire government) on the illusion of something for nothing. Instead of tackling that basic logic, we\u2019ve got a reform process that is trying to evade it. This would be bad enough<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13506\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,104,617,616,151,667,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}