{"id":1639,"date":"2009-09-29T11:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/public-option-competition\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T18:43:01","slug":"public-option-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/public-option-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"public option &#038; competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;public option&#8221; for health insurance would promote competition, proponents claim.<\/p>\n<p>On what planet?\u00a0 If that were true on planet Earth there would be a thriving market of low-cost health insurance alternatives to compete with Medicare for senior citizens.\u00a0 There would be a thriving market of low-cost health insurance alternatives to compete with Medicaid and SChip.\u00a0 All of these &#8220;public options&#8221; have destroyed competition, not fostered it.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats aren&#8217;t stupid and they can understand these facts as well as anyone, which leaves only one conclusion: the &#8220;public option&#8221; is neither about health care nor competition.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about power, control, and growing government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;public option&#8221; for health insurance would promote competition, proponents claim. On what planet?\u00a0 If that were true on planet Earth there would be a thriving market of low-cost health insurance alternatives to compete with Medicare for senior citizens.\u00a0 There would be a thriving market of low-cost health insurance alternatives to compete with Medicaid and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health-insurance","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}