{"id":1590,"date":"2009-08-24T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2009-08-24T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T12:30:14","slug":"over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Over there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the health care reform debate, if one can even call it that, ought to be grounded in reality.&nbsp; One aspect of reality relevant to the debate regards what is empirically possible.&nbsp; People seem to take it, for instance, that covering more people and having better outcomes necessarily entails either spending a lot more or getting a lot less.&nbsp; Other countries succeed at it, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/21\/AR2009082101778.html?nav=hcmoduletmv\">perhaps we should <em>at least <\/em>patiently and honestly discuss what they do<\/a>.&nbsp; Just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the health care reform debate, if one can even call it that, ought to be grounded in reality.&nbsp; One aspect of reality relevant to the debate regards what is empirically possible.&nbsp; People seem to take it, for instance, that covering more people and having better outcomes necessarily entails either spending a lot more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over there<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}