{"id":17233,"date":"2010-01-12T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mandatory_health_insurance_becomes_an_issue\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:02:16","slug":"mandatory_health_insurance_becomes_an_issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17233","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory health insurance becomes an issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Michael Sertic, a college senior studying economics, is young and healthy, and he doesn&#8217;t want the government forcing him to buy health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>He is among a group of people on both the right and the left ends of the political spectrum who object to proposals in Congress that would compel nearly every American to buy health insurance or face a fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I happen to believe it&#8217;s unconstitutional. Government shouldn&#8217;t be forcing someone to pay for someone else&#8217;s health care,&#8221; said Sertic, 24, a member of Students for Liberty, a club at California State University, Sacramento, that espouses libertarian values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/100\/story\/82010.html?storylink=omni_popular\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Sertic, a college senior studying economics, is young and healthy, and he doesn&#8217;t want the government forcing him to buy health insurance. He is among a group of people on both the right and the left ends of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17233\">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":[39,513,104,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233","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=17233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}