{"id":273,"date":"2007-06-08T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=273"},"modified":"2007-06-08T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T16:58:12","slug":"defining-minimums-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Defining Minimums Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know why healthcare and insurance is so expensive? Because Congress decides to do shit like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/medical\/mastectomy.asp\">this<\/a>, mandating 48-hour hospital stays for women undergoing mastectomy.<\/p>\n<p>Look, it would be great if this were the case.  Women should get a 48-hour stay. But you know what will happen if this law is passed?  Insurance will get more expensive.  Why should we make it illegal for a woman to chose a cheap insurance company that covers her mastectomy at the cost of rushing her back home?  Can&#8217;t they make that choice?  I thought the Dems were all about choice. But apparently crappy insurance is not an allowable choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know why healthcare and insurance is so expensive? Because Congress decides to do shit like this, mandating 48-hour hospital stays for women undergoing mastectomy. Look, it would be great if this were the case. Women should get a 48-hour stay. But you know what will happen if this law is passed? Insurance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=273\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defining Minimums Up<\/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":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}