{"id":3986,"date":"2017-07-21T23:10:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T23:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/From-where-I-sit-in-a-country-that-provides-medical-care-for-everyone-because-thats-how-you-run-a-decent"},"modified":"2017-07-21T23:10:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T23:10:45","slug":"from-where-i-sit-in-a-country-that-provides-medical-care-for-everyone-because-thats-how-you-run-a-decent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/07\/21\/from-where-i-sit-in-a-country-that-provides-medical-care-for-everyone-because-thats-how-you-run-a-decent\/","title":{"rendered":"From where I sit &#8211; in a country that provides medical care for everyone, because that&#8217;s how you run a decent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>From where I sit &#8211; in a country that provides medical care for everyone, because <em>that&#8217;s how you run a decent society, what is wrong with you?<\/em> &#8211; this all seems pretty obvious. But I know that it&#8217;s a daily struggle for a great many people in the US, and that&#8217;s in large part down to narratives about earning and deserving, and how something run as a business will naturally and inevitably and magically work better than something run by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Gregory Lynn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know Kameron Hurley, you probably should. She writes some massively complex science fiction and fantasy so she&#8217;s often thinking about the future and what society would look like. She also has a chronic condition that almost killed her so she has some thoughts about medical care and the way it all works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are thoughtful thoughts and you should read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2uQve4r<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        From where I sit &#8211; in a country that provides medical care for everyone, because that&#8217;s how you run a decent&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/07\/21\/from-where-i-sit-in-a-country-that-provides-medical-care-for-everyone-because-thats-how-you-run-a-decent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}