{"id":60372,"date":"2009-12-02T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010408568_fromaharropwantsarationaldebate.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-02T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:35:04","slug":"froma-harrop-wants-a-rational-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/60372","title":{"rendered":"Froma Harrop wants a rational debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Columnist complaints are inevitable consequences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Froma Harrop really wants to be rational about the health-care debate [\u201cLet\u2019s have a rational debate about the cost of health care,\u201d Opinion, syndicated column, Nov. 26], she should start by investigating the concept of comprehensive health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Paying for routine medical services by insurance is one of the main causes of the outrageously high prices of the American health-care industry. Among all the laws and regulations that have driven up health-care costs, legislation promoting employer-provided comprehensive health insurance and Medicare have been among the worst offenders.<\/p>\n<p>The ills that Harrop complains about are an inevitable consequence of any comprehensive insurance system, and can only be rectified by either rationing or, in the case of a government-run system such as Medicare, increased taxes or deficit financing.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Richard Opheim, Kenmore<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist complaints are inevitable consequences If Froma Harrop really wants to be rational about the health-care debate [\u201cLet\u2019s have a rational debate about the cost of health care,\u201d Opinion, syndicated column, Nov. 26], she should start by investigating the concept of comprehensive health insurance. Paying for routine medical services by insurance is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60372","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=60372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}