{"id":12585,"date":"2012-06-29T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12585"},"modified":"2012-06-29T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T18:00:50","slug":"turns-out-obama-totally-stole-the-idea-of-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/turns-out-obama-totally-stole-the-idea-of-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out, Obama totally stole the idea of Obamacare!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; the hazzards of sickness &#8230; should be provided for through insurance. This should be [charged to] the industries the employer, the employee, and perhaps the people at large &#8230; Wherever such standards are not met by given establishments, by given industries, are unprovided for by a legislature, or are balked by unenlightened courts, the workers are in jeopardy, the progressive employer is penalized, and the community pays a heavy cost in lessened efficiency and in misery. What [European country] has done in the way of old age pensions or insurance should be studied by us, and the system adapted to our uses, with whatever modifications are rendered necessary by our different ways of life and habits of thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/history\/trspeech.html\">Teddy Roosevelt in 1912<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the difference between Teddy Roosevelt&#8217;s health care plan and Obama&#8217;s health care plan?  There is only one important difference.  Obama got it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the hazzards of sickness &#8230; should be provided for through insurance. This should be [charged to] the industries the employer, the employee, and perhaps the people at large &#8230; Wherever such standards are not met by given establishments, by given industries, are unprovided for by a legislature, or are balked by unenlightened courts, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/29\/turns-out-obama-totally-stole-the-idea-of-obamacare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turns out, Obama totally stole the idea of Obamacare!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1771],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3gZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}