{"id":569228,"date":"2010-05-18T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/health-care-protest-shuts-down-paris-train-station-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-18T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:24:42","slug":"austerity-anger-heads-to-france-health-care-protest-shuts-down-paris-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569228","title":{"rendered":"Austerity Anger Heads To France: Health Care Protest Shuts Down Paris Train Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bf2d4ab7f8b9aaa43d30400-348-261\/montparnasse.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"montparnasse\" width=\"348\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even without a deficit crisis, France is running out of money to pay for its generous social programs.<\/p>\n<p>95% of French anesthestists are striking today to demand a raise. Several thousands held a particularly annoying protest on the tracks of a major Parisian train station, which blocked trains for hours, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/portfolio\/2010\/05\/18\/la-gare-montparnasse-bloquee-plusieurs-heures-par-les-infirmiers-anesthesistes_1353658_3224.html\">Le Monde<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As the austerity bug hits France, paying for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-reasons-why-the-us-health-care-system-is-the-envy-of-the-world-2010-3#health-care-reform-will-be-even-harder-in-countries-that-take-excellent-coverage-for-granted-10\">world&#8217;s best health care system<\/a> will be a major challenge. The country has tried <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124958049241511735.html\">for decades<\/a> to reduce health care pay and benefits, and only succeeded in stirring up public outrage.<\/p>\n<h4>See Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greece-pounded-collapse-2010-4#french-banks-represent-over-25-of-claims-1\">Guess Who&#8217;s Going To Get Pounded In A Greek Collapse<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/health-care-protest-shuts-down-paris-train-station-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/WOH03V141s8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even without a deficit crisis, France is running out of money to pay for its generous social programs. 95% of French anesthestists are striking today to demand a raise. Several thousands held a particularly annoying protest on the tracks of a major Parisian train station, which blocked trains for hours, according to Le Monde. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}