{"id":167,"date":"2009-06-17T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-06-17T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:07:00","slug":"letter-to-usa-today-healthcare-reform-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Letter to USA Today &#8211; Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The healthcare industry has no use for the greed and heartlessness of the for-profit insurance companies. Since the Nixon administration put these HMOs in place in 1973, they&#8217;ve been working hard to deny care and drive America into bankruptcy. While it took them a few years to get a stranglehold on our hospitals and private practices, their influence has most certainly hit the fan these days&#8230; and they still don&#8217;t care. What are they doing with all of our money? Pampering and promising the world to our Congress and our President &#8211; spending billions of dollars to keep laws favoring their needless and inhumane role in our great nation&#8217;s medical field.<\/p>\n<p>Aetna, Cigna, Anthem.. patients despise them and doctors abhor them. Our politicians need to cut their financial ties with these corporations and do what is right for the American people &#8211; declare for-profit health insurance illegal, liquidate their assets, and put these billions (trillions?) of dollars into a for-care healthcare system that works for patients and doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare is such a system here in the US, use that model to extend cost coverage to the rest of us. The answer is staring us right in the face &#8211; as long as our elected officials are willing to look past the dollar bills being fanned in their faces by insurance corporation lobbyists. Most people call it single-payer, because as with Medicare, the government is the only entity that pays doctors on our behalf.<\/p>\n<p>These health insurance scoundrels have had their run and it has turned out very badly. They were created by law and they should be removed by law, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The healthcare industry has no use for the greed and heartlessness of the for-profit insurance companies. Since the Nixon administration put these HMOs in place in 1973, they&#8217;ve been working hard to deny care and drive America into bankruptcy. While it took them a few years to get a stranglehold on our hospitals and private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wog.ihoby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}