{"id":6302,"date":"2014-05-01T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6302"},"modified":"2014-04-24T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:07:32","slug":"health-care-coverage-vs-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6302","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Coverage vs. Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a difference between getting heath care <i>coverage<\/i>, and actually getting health <i>care<\/i>. In the US, you could always get health care. Emergency rooms had to see you whether or not you could pay them. And there were various free clinics, like one in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n<p>The Rotacare clinic was happy to help out their patients in getting ObamaCare coverage so they\u2019d no longer need the free clinic. <a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2014\/04\/18\/consumerwatch-some-covered-california-patients-say-they-cant-see-a-doctor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Months later, however, the same people are coming back.<\/a> Why? They can\u2019t find a doctor taking more patients or who are accepting the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives warned that exactly this thing would happen, years ago. It was handwaved away as scare tactics. But it\u2019s Californians who are scared now, about having to pay premiums, subsidized though they may be, and not be able to actually use what they paid for.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Californians have been added to the ranks of the insured, but 1\/3 of California primary care physicians are set to retire. What are we going to do now? We passed a law that said insurance should be magically cheaper. <i>That<\/i> didn\u2019t work. So then let\u2019s pass a law to make doctors magically appear! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a difference between getting heath care coverage, and actually getting health care. In the US, you could always get health care. Emergency rooms had to see you whether or not you could pay them. And there were various free clinics, like one in Mountain View, California. The Rotacare clinic was happy to help out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-healthcare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}