{"id":2547,"date":"2009-08-19T13:47:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:47:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T21:47:20","slug":"rational-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rational-rationing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rational rationing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YmI3YzBjMTI4NDVjMjViMThjM2VhMzQwYjY4YjdkODE=\">conservative critique <\/a>of Obama\u2019s rationing and alleged euthanasia intentions still seems to me to maintain a certain ambiguity about whether the critics think that Obama is planning to force the entire medical system\u2014private and public\u2014into rationing mode or just Medicare (and presumably also Medicaid, though the attacks from the right have focused on geriatric care).\u00a0 As long as individuals remain free to exit government-subsidized health care or to pay for more treatment than the government will cover, I not only don\u2019t find it offensive for the government to set a limit on the procedures it will reimburse, I darn well hope it does.\u00a0 But perhaps the conservative critics mean to argue that the ultimate endpoint of the Democrats\u2019 reform plans will be a government takeover of the entire health system\u2014a scary proposition&#8211;and are using rationing as a rallying cry to gin up opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the conservative critique of Obama\u2019s rationing and alleged euthanasia intentions still seems to me to maintain a certain ambiguity about whether the critics think that Obama is planning to force the entire medical system\u2014private and public\u2014into rationing mode &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rational-rationing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}