{"id":970,"date":"2009-09-10T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-09-10T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:14:44","slug":"missing-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/missing-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something that I just realized, and the implications are frightening:<\/p>\n<p>_Where is the insurance industry&#8217;s panicked response to proposed Federal competition and\/or takeovers??_<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t they be screaming bloody murder (which is not covered under your policy, most likely)?  <\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t they be loudly justifying their existence in any and all media possible?   Shouldn&#8217;t they be announcing their own internal reform plans which would eliminate the need for Federal absorption?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes&#8211; they *should*.<\/p>\n<p>But since they&#8217;re *not*&#8230; what does that imply?  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume, for the sake of nightmares, that Obamacare passes (which optimistically further assumes that the Supreme Court hasn&#8217;t already locked photon torpedoes on the entire project).  <\/p>\n<p>If that happens, why, the best health care in the world will still be found right here in America, responsive, available, and free of the taint of socialistic catastrophe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; for a price, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; on the Indian reservations, right next to the casinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something that I just realized, and the implications are frightening: _Where is the insurance industry&#8217;s panicked response to proposed Federal competition and\/or takeovers??_ Shouldn&#8217;t they be screaming bloody murder (which is not covered under your policy, most likely)? Shouldn&#8217;t they be loudly justifying their existence in any and all media possible? Shouldn&#8217;t they be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}