{"id":12931,"date":"2010-03-21T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/21\/12931.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:09","slug":"219-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/21\/219-212\/","title":{"rendered":"219 &gt; 212"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I should probably say something profound or something about passing a Health Care Finance Reform bill. It&#8217;s, um.\n<P>Well, let me say this: If you had told me, in, oh, 2005, that within five years we would have passed a Health Care Finance Reform that would, essentially, expand health insurance to cover everybody (or very nearly), with subsidies for those who cannot afford it and regulations to prevent the insurers from denying insurance to those who need it most, or kicking out those who cost the most, well. I don&#8217;t think I would have believed you.\n<P>And, of course, in 1995, if you told me it would take fifteen years, I would have been sadly disappointed.\n<P>Still. Not bad. Not bad. But as with any kind of democracy: now&#8217;s the time to really start work.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is more relieved than giddy. And more tired than relieved. But it got done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19050,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions\/19050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}