{"id":153,"date":"2009-04-01T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/archives\/put-em-out-of-business\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T00:48:22","slug":"put-em-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/archives\/put-em-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Put &#8216;Em Out of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dkms.com\/kmci\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-content\/themes\/cutline-3-column-split-11\/images\/athtn004.jpg\" alt=\"athtn\" height=\"356\" width=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">I don&#8217;t think this one is an April Fool&#8217;s joke. This morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/module\/printversion\/134353\" title=\"Kirk Nielsen -- Fainting\">Kirk Nielsen reports<\/a> on a fainting spell that  resulted in his missing out on finalizing a date with \u201ca fantastic woman,\u201d and also in medical charges exceeding $10,000 for relatively minor treatment. He ends his sad lament on current medical reality in the early 21st Century USA with this question: \u201cMy date in Duluth gave me a break. When are America&#8217;s health care givers going to give all of us one?\u201d<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial, sans-serif\"><font size=\"3\">My answer is: when we put &#8217;em out of business and move to single-payer universal health care.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think this one is an April Fool&#8217;s joke. This morning Kirk Nielsen reports on a fainting spell that resulted in his missing out on finalizing a date with \u201ca fantastic woman,\u201d and also in medical charges exceeding $10,000 for relatively minor treatment. He ends his sad lament on current medical reality in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693],"tags":[1210,1211,1209,1212],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fainting-andmedical-bills","tag-health-care-costs","tag-kirk-nielsen","tag-universal-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmci.org\/alllifeisproblemsolving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}