{"id":495,"date":"2007-10-21T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2007-10-21T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T16:52:23","slug":"armed-with-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Armed with information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A PBS show about a successful but financially strained state run health care program for the poor in Tennessee featured someone&#8211;a state representative dead set against the program&#8211;who said: not all problems can be solved with money.  Fair enough.  But all money problems can be solved with money, and that was a money problem.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/19\/AR2007101902273.html\">David Broder<\/a> isn&#8217;t far away from that when he writes:<\/p>\n<p>>What I learned about Leavitt in his years as governor is that he is blessed with vision that sees future policy challenges and developments more clearly than most politicians. In this case, he is visualizing a radically different kind of medical marketplace, in which families <strong>armed with specific information<\/strong> about the treatment success and prices of hospitals and doctors can shop at will for the best quality and most affordable care. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no shortage of information about health care success.  Here&#8217;s one that even I know: seeing a doctor for basic health care needs increases one&#8217;s healthness quotient.  The primary shortage, as anyone can tell  you, is access to affordable health care for millions of employed as well as unemployed people.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PBS show about a successful but financially strained state run health care program for the poor in Tennessee featured someone&#8211;a state representative dead set against the program&#8211;who said: not all problems can be solved with money. Fair enough. But all money problems can be solved with money, and that was a money problem. David &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armed with information<\/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":[61,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-broder","category-ignoratio-elenchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}