{"id":1530,"date":"2010-03-28T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2010-03-28T07:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:27:05","slug":"health-care-mojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/health-care-mojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care mojo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then (more then than now), somebody steps up to the proverbial plate and utters an ounce of truth. Take the so-called &#8220;health care&#8221; debate now raging from sea to shining sea. Actually a silly moniker, as the debate isn&#8217;t about health, but about business &#8211; the business of perpetuating a system that rewards pain, suffering and assorted wrong-headed behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what one brave soul inked in the <em>New York Times<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;FOR all the debate lately, one basic fact about America\u2019s health care crisis is rarely mentioned. Namely, the one thing that could really reform health care is you, collectively speaking: People living healthier lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amen.<\/strong> But it gets more interesting. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/28\/business\/28unbox.html?hpw\">&#8220;The statistical evidence has been clear for years, but it bears repeating. Studies show that 50 percent to 70 percent of the nation\u2019s health care costs are preventable.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Factor that tidbit into your health care calculator, then see how sensible the last year&#8217;s worth of noise regarding health has been. <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then (more then than now), somebody steps up to the proverbial plate and utters an ounce of truth. Take the so-called &#8220;health care&#8221; debate now raging from sea to shining sea. Actually a silly moniker, as the debate isn&#8217;t about health, but about business &#8211; the business of perpetuating a system that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}