{"id":1515,"date":"2009-08-08T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2009-08-08T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T09:03:09","slug":"obamas-health-care-plan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s health care plan (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a country like Britain &#8211; where we have had a National Health Service for 61 years and where all the major political parties support the NHS &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to comprehend the level of emotional debate in the United States over President Obama&#8217;s health care plan.<br \/>\nIn this &#8220;New York Times&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/07\/opinion\/07krugman.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion\">op-ed piece<\/a> by the Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman (drawn to my attention by my American friend David Eden), he talks of &#8220;congressmen shouted down, congressmen hanged in effigy, congressmen surrounded and followed by taunting crowds&#8221; and, no doubt rightly, identifies much of the vilification of the proposals as based on a caricature of the real plan and a reaction to a black man in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country like Britain &#8211; where we have had a National Health Service for 61 years and where all the major political parties support the NHS &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to comprehend the level of emotional debate in the United States over President Obama&#8217;s health care plan. In this &#8220;New York Times&#8221; op-ed piece by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}