{"id":780,"date":"2009-09-23T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2009-09-23T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T20:54:21","slug":"if-you-like-your-doctor-see-federal-ombudsmen-or-employer-or-hhs-or-hmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/780\/if-you-like-your-doctor-see-federal-ombudsmen-or-employer-or-hhs-or-hmo\/","title":{"rendered":"If you like your doctor &#8230; see federal Ombudsmen, or Employer, or HHS, or HMO &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard the line time after time.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2009\/06\/15\/obama-if-you-like-your-doctor-you-can-keep-your-doctor\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor,&#8221;<\/a> exclaims the President during every major town hall and Congressional address.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when it comes to the sausage factory that is Congress, pledges morph into broken promises quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jec.senate.gov\/republicans\/public\/_files\/SFCMarkFlowchart92209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is a perfect illustration of how Congress takes the simple (patient-&gt;doctor) and makes it maddeningly complex.\u00a0 There is nothing Congress is incapable of ruining, including your relationship with your physician.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-781\" title=\"SFCMarkFlowchart92209\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SFCMarkFlowchart92209-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"SFCMarkFlowchart92209\" width=\"1050\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SFCMarkFlowchart92209-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/SFCMarkFlowchart92209-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard the line time after time. &#8220;If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor,&#8221; exclaims the President during every major town hall and Congressional address.\u00a0 Unfortunately, when it comes to the sausage factory that is Congress, pledges morph into broken promises quickly. Here is a perfect illustration of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}