{"id":5745,"date":"2010-03-21T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2010-03-21T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T12:44:38","slug":"an-unfortunate-turn-to-boilerplate-health-care-sob-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/21\/an-unfortunate-turn-to-boilerplate-health-care-sob-story\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unfortunate Turn To Boilerplate Health Care Sob Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/features\/health\/88744772.html\" target=\"_blank\">Another entry<\/a> in a thought-provoking series designed to provoke support for government health care:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For nearly a decade, Paula O&#8212;-&#8216;s brain tumor was kept at bay by a drug that was not approved to treat her condition.<\/p>\n<p>Then Oertel did something she never imagined would jeopardize her good health. She moved. Less than 30 miles &#8211; from one county in Wisconsin to another.<\/p>\n<p>The move triggered a review of her health insurance from Medicare, which eventually led to a loss of coverage, including the drug. And the tumor returned within four months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A tragic story, but, um, that&#8217;s already government health care denying the coverage.  Is this story supposed to be promoting health control reform or arguing against it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another entry in a thought-provoking series designed to provoke support for government health care: For nearly a decade, Paula O&#8212;-&#8216;s brain tumor was kept at bay by a drug that was not approved to treat her condition. Then Oertel did something she never imagined would jeopardize her good health. She moved. Less than 30 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}