{"id":15190,"date":"2009-09-26T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ann_mckenna_fromm_politics_and_religion_converge_in_end-of-life_care\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:01:25","slug":"ann_mckenna_fromm_politics_and_religion_converge_in_end-of-life_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15190","title":{"rendered":"Ann McKenna Fromm: Politics and religion converge in end-of-life care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jarvis,&#8221; I asked my husband, &#8220;should we have a discussion about end-of-life care?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need that discussion &#8212; almost in religious terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure what he meant. The reason the whole subject comes up so much nowadays is political: Who would pay for end of life care? I reminded Jarvis that, according to a July Wall Street Journal article, most health care spending in general occurs in the last six months of life. And a recent UC Berkeley report noted that health care accounts for 16 percent of our gross domestic product; it will increase if nothing is done, providing a huge drag on our country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the more reason we need that conversation,&#8221; Jarvis said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09269\/1000845-109.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jarvis,&#8221; I asked my husband, &#8220;should we have a discussion about end-of-life care?&#8221; &#8220;Yes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need that discussion &#8212; almost in religious terms.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t sure what he meant. The reason the whole subject comes up so much<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15190\">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":[48,39,513,438,168,104,96,184,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190","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=15190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}