{"id":972,"date":"2009-09-29T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2009-09-29T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:13:20","slug":"must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/972\/must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely, this piece comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dylan-ratigan\/why-would-we-let-them-rig_b_302480.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> but it&#8217;s authored by Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC, who seems to be more open-minded.<\/p>\n<p>His point?\u00a0 Democrats so often claim that the &#8220;market&#8221; is broken because health care is expensive and too many people lack health coverage.\u00a0 Well, one reason that health care is too expensive is because the government helps to create health care monopolies in the states and even prevents consumers from shopping across state lines for cheaper\/better insurance.<\/p>\n<p>There is no true &#8220;market&#8221; for health care if you live in North Dakota\u00a0where Blue Cross controls 90% of the market.\u00a0 There is little choice in Maine where Wellpoint controls 71% of the market.\u00a0 Capitalism works best when consumers have choices between companies.\u00a0 Health care companies should beg and compete for our business, not the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely, this piece comes from the Huffington Post but it&#8217;s authored by Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC, who seems to be more open-minded. His point?\u00a0 Democrats so often claim that the &#8220;market&#8221; is broken because health care is expensive and too many people lack health coverage.\u00a0 Well, one reason that health care is too expensive is [&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":[55,207,102,12],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-capitalism","tag-dylan-ratigan","tag-free-market","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}