{"id":37,"date":"2008-01-02T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-01-12T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:59:53","slug":"us-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"US Healthcare:"},"content":{"rendered":"The cost of a long life.<\/a> Anyone who doesn’t think the US healthcare system is broken has lost their mind.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cost of a long life. Anyone who doesn’t think the US healthcare system is broken has lost their mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3IMYj-B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124,"url":"http:\/\/chasingeden.com\/?p=124","url_meta":{"origin":37,"position":0},"title":"The cost of US Healthcare:","author":"kellio","date":"January 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It doesn't get any plainer that this: There will be a lot of political talk coming up about \"changes\" in healthcare...to deal with the cost, with the un-insured...about the mandate the election provided for change. 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