{"id":2367,"date":"2009-10-12T05:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2009-10-16T05:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:49:06","slug":"health-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2367","title":{"rendered":"Health Rationing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the arguments about health care reform is that if the government pays they will ration what is available.\u00a0 This is certainly the case in the UK as this story in the October 8th Daily Mail shows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"PA110010\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/4001454684\/pa110010.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2490\/4001454684_719c4a74cb_m.jpg?resize=240%2C72\" alt=\"PA110010\" width=\"240\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"PA110009\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/4000689405\/pa110009.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2581\/4000689405_6dc99e0004_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"PA110009\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The NHS is the UK&#8217;s National Health Service and they are not going to allow doctors to prescribe a new drug for Rheumatoid Arthritis because it is to expensive.\u00a0 Will that happen here?\u00a0 It already does to some extent.\u00a0 But the bigger problem is that if drug developers can&#8217;t make money investment will dry up and development will stop.\u00a0 On the other hand if we don&#8217;t change the way we are paying for health care now we will go bankrupt.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/scary-medicare-math\"><strong>My post about Medicare finances.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the arguments about health care reform is that if the government pays they will ration what is available.\u00a0 This is certainly the case in the UK as this story in the October 8th Daily Mail shows: The NHS is the UK&#8217;s National Health Service and they are not going to allow doctors to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}