{"id":3298,"date":"2010-03-15T01:48:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T06:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2010-03-15T01:48:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T06:48:24","slug":"this-14-year-old-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/this-14-year-old-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"this 14 year old gets it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story_meta\">\n<p id=\"bylines\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/10\/government-run-health-care-wrong-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">From Independent Mail:\u00a0Wednesday, March 10, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story_content\">\n<p>While I think that everyone deserves to have the health care that they need, I can\u2019t say I\u2019m for a government-run health-care system. Just because I\u2019m 14 years old doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if the government starts to run all of our health care, there will be many new problems that will arise. If everyone had an all-expense-paid trip to the doctor\u2019s office, some people probably wouldn\u2019t think twice about going for every little runny nose and every new test that becomes available. Besides, a hospital must accept anyone if they are hurt or need help.<\/p>\n<p>Think about this scenario: Twenty people are sick. Nineteen just have a common cold and are in no threat of dying. However, the 20th person gets pushed back and by the time he gets the screening results it\u2019s too late. The cancer picked up by the screening has already entered the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that all of the doctors are so busy now that this might be more than the already stressed system can take.<\/p>\n<p>I would guess that the malpractice lawsuits would also be more than the doctors will want to put up with, and I\u2019m sure their pay will go down after the government gets its cut.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think the government should control health care.<\/p>\n<p>Government-run health care is not what\u2019s right for America.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Cleveland, Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Independent Mail:\u00a0Wednesday, March 10, 2010 While I think that everyone deserves to have the health care that they need, I can\u2019t say I\u2019m for a government-run health-care system. Just because I\u2019m 14 years old doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t care. I think that if the government starts to run all of our health care, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}