{"id":4525,"date":"2013-10-29T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2013-10-29T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:09:34","slug":"not-the-onion-part-342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4525","title":{"rendered":"Not the Onion, part 342"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thighmaster General<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Scott and Rob<\/a> argue their minds to the bone<\/a> on the place of rationality in political discourse, the Wall Street Journal<\/a> publishes an error-filled op-ed (in a section called “The Experts”) by Suzanne Somers<\/a>, of Three’s Company<\/a> and Thighmaster<\/a> fame. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

First of all, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call affordable health care what it really is:\u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s socialized medicine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had an opportunity to watch the Canadian version of affordable health care<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0in action with all its limitations with\u00c2\u00a0my Canadian husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family.\u00c2\u00a0A few years ago, I was startled to see\u00c2\u00a0the cover of\u00c2\u00a0Maclean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em>, a national Canadian magazine, showing\u00c2\u00a0a picture of a dog on an examining table with the headline, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your Dog Can Get Better Health Care Than You.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It went on to say that young Canadian medical\u00c2\u00a0students have no incentive to become doctors to humans because they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make any money. Instead, there is a great surge of Canadian students becoming veterinarians. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where the money is. A Canadian\u00c2\u00a0animal can have timely MRIs, surgeries and any number of tests it needs to receive quality health care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the reason the Affordable Care Act, i.e., Obamacare, is a failure, is because the Canadian system, to which ACA is completely unrelated, is also a failure, according to the cover of a Canadian magazine (the original version of Somer’s op-ed said it was a horse, not a dog)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This would be hilarious if it were not the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

As always, the Onion already kind of called it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Scott and Rob argue their minds to the bone on the place of rationality in political discourse, the Wall Street Journal publishes an error-filled op-ed (in a section called “The Experts”) by Suzanne Somers, of Three’s Company and Thighmaster fame. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s how it begins: First of all, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call affordable health care what it … Continue reading Not the Onion, part 342<\/span> →<\/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":[1786,1785,1767,408,407,1964,1784,1110,1787,579,1788],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-macleans","tag-obamacare","tag-robert-talisse","tag-scott-aikin","tag-straw-man","tag-suzanne-somers","tag-the-onion","tag-thighmaster","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-why-we-argue-and-how-we-should"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}