{"id":92130,"date":"2009-12-21T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coverage-and-costs-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:56:00","slug":"sorry-haters-the-healthcare-bill-actually-will-reduce-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/92130","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Haters, The Healthcare Bill Actually WILL Reduce Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4abd319dcf17961742b2bf26\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PaulKrugman-0909-1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The usual suspects are out in force on the op-ed pages, declaring that the health reform bill doesn&rsquo;t control costs, it&rsquo;s a huge cost, etc..<\/p>\n<p>And I had a new thought: part of what&rsquo;s going on here, aside from the fact that these people just hate the idea of expanding social insurance, is that they haven&rsquo;t looked at all at the actual numbers involved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The key thing to understand in the coverage debate has always been that it costs surprisingly little to cover the uninsured.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/21\/coverage-and-costs\/\">Continue reading at the NYT &raquo;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coverage-and-costs-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/senate-and-house-healthcare-bills-may-be-on-impossible-collision-course-2009-12\">Senate And House Healthcare Bills May Be On Impossible Collision Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dems-get-60-in-late-night-healthcare-vote-2009-12\">Healthcare Reform Is One Step Closer To Reality After Huge 1:00 AM Vote Gets To 60<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/with-healthcare-democrats-commit-unprecedented-act-of-political-suicide-2009-12\">With Healthcare, Democrats Commit Unprecedented Act Of Political Suicide<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/8X2DT4aetI4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual suspects are out in force on the op-ed pages, declaring that the health reform bill doesn&rsquo;t control costs, it&rsquo;s a huge cost, etc.. And I had a new thought: part of what&rsquo;s going on here, aside from the fact that these people just hate the idea of expanding social insurance, is that they [&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-92130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92130","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=92130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}