{"id":9914,"date":"2008-12-02T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_consensus_emerging_on_universal_healthcare\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T17:27:23","slug":"la_times_consensus_emerging_on_universal_healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9914","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Consensus emerging on universal healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of failed efforts to reshape the nation&#8217;s healthcare system, a consensus appears to be emerging in Washington about how to achieve the elusive goal of providing medical insurance to all Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, say leading groups of businesses, hospitals, doctors, labor unions and insurance companies &#8212; as well as senior lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the new Obama administration &#8212; is unprecedented government intervention to create a system of universal protection.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, those groups, which span the ideological and political spectrum, largely have agreed to preserve the employer-based system through which most Americans get their health insurance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-na-healthcare1-2008dec01,0,6319201.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of failed efforts to reshape the nation&#8217;s healthcare system, a consensus appears to be emerging in Washington about how to achieve the elusive goal of providing medical insurance to all Americans. The answer, say leading groups of businesses,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9914\">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":[39,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914","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=9914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}