{"id":54,"date":"2007-10-22T13:53:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-10-22T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T17:53:46","slug":"mccains-health-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s Health Care Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Noah over at Slate has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2175926\/pagenum\/all\/#page_start\">this piece<\/a> analyzing the radical aspects of the McCain health care plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In essence, I learned, McCain is challenging fee-for-service medicine, though not to the point of mandating that doctors be put on salary. Under the present fee-for-service payment scheme, doctors have an economic incentive to maximize their income by performing as many medical procedures as possible. That drives up costs, overtaxes hospitals, and threatens patients&#8217; lives. McCain deserves congratulations for taking on the fee-for-service problem, even if his proposed solution is short on specifics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article does make the point that McCain does not seem all that serious about actually doing this though.\u00a0 And he has little chance of winning at this point.\u00a0 I think Noah would also agree that the Democratic plans by Obama, Edwards, and Clinton, while modest, have greater potential down-the-road as people opt into the government plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Noah over at Slate has this piece analyzing the radical aspects of the McCain health care plan. In essence, I learned, McCain is challenging fee-for-service medicine, though not to the point of mandating that doctors be put on salary. Under the present fee-for-service payment scheme, doctors have an economic incentive to maximize their income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-election-2008","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}