{"id":271,"date":"2007-06-06T22:12:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T04:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=271"},"modified":"2007-06-06T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T04:12:20","slug":"resist-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Resist TB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even a Libertarian like me would support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/06\/health\/06tb.html?ex=1338782400&#038;en=db0a2ea2ebd1238b&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">this effort<\/a> to control-drug resistant TB. For once, I&#8217;m in agreement with Ted Kennedy (it won&#8217;t happen again).  This is precisely what government is for &#8212; public health, doing the things that profit the nation massively but would not profit an individual enough to make it feasible.<\/p>\n<p>$1 billion to save a million lives?  That&#8217;s cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even a Libertarian like me would support this effort to control-drug resistant TB. For once, I&#8217;m in agreement with Ted Kennedy (it won&#8217;t happen again). This is precisely what government is for &#8212; public health, doing the things that profit the nation massively but would not profit an individual enough to make it feasible. $1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resist TB<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}