{"id":4271,"date":"2010-03-17T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:20:16","slug":"more-good-talking-points-on-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4271\/more-good-talking-points-on-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good Talking Points on Health Care &#8220;Reform&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/healthcare.cato.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cato Institute<\/a>\u2019s Michael F. Cannon engages in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/opinion\/article\/opinion-obamas-health-care-myths-exposed\/19402359\" target=\"_blank\">some crisp health care \u201creform\u201d myth-busting<\/a> for <em>AOL News<\/em> today.\u00a0 My favorite is his succinct evisceration of the claim that the Senate bill isn\u2019t a government takeover of health care.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This legislation would force all Americans to purchase health insurance coverage. Government would control what kind of insurance you purchase, where you purchase it, how much you pay and what kind of medical care you receive. Our health care sector would be &#8220;private&#8221; in name only.<\/p>\n<p>Once government controls those decisions, there will be nothing left to socialize. Make no mistake &#8212; this is a vote on socialized medicine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute\u2019s Michael F. Cannon engages in some crisp health care \u201creform\u201d myth-busting for AOL News today.\u00a0 My favorite is his succinct evisceration of the claim that the Senate bill isn\u2019t a government takeover of health care. This legislation would force all Americans to purchase health insurance coverage. Government would control what kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[627,465,966],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cato-institute","tag-health-care-reform","tag-socialized-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}