{"id":13788,"date":"2017-07-18T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=13788"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:47:04","slug":"a-history-of-why-the-us-is-the-only-rich-country-without-universal-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/a-history-of-why-the-us-is-the-only-rich-country-without-universal-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"A history of why the US is the only rich country without universal health care"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s simple enough. We don’t demand it, we don’t get it. Somehow, the leaders in our country have conned Americans into believing that they don’t deserve universal health care. Somehow, we’ve been sold a fairy tale that denying health care to the poor will make them stronger, get them out of poverty and make them more successful. Yeah, ok sure.
\nApparently, Capitalism and the invisible hand is more important to America than being able to see a Doctor when you need to regardless of how rich you are.<\/p>\n

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It’s simple enough. We don’t demand it, we don’t get it. Somehow, the leaders in our country have conned Americans into believing that they don’t deserve universal health care. Somehow, we’ve been sold a fairy tale that denying health care to the poor will make them stronger, get them out of poverty and make them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-13788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13331,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/on-tuesday-new-york-state-assembly-is-expected-to-pass-single-payer-health-care-bill\/","url_meta":{"origin":13788,"position":0},"title":"On Tuesday, New York State Assembly is expected to pass single-payer health care bill","date":"May 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It might be time to move back home to NY...somehow, I don't see CT going this route.http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rmLhlM","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13569,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/french-montana-health-care-should-be-a-right-not-a-privilege\/","url_meta":{"origin":13788,"position":1},"title":"French Montana: Health care should be a right, not a privilege","date":"June 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Health care IS a right. 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