{"id":5959,"date":"2012-02-10T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2012-02-10T19:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:53:53","slug":"there-is-no-right-to-health-care-santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/there-is-no-right-to-health-care-santorum\/","title":{"rendered":"There is no right to health care (Santorum)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, there may not be.  Rights are, in part, what we decide as a society and it is not clear that the US has decided that health care is a right.  Most civilized countries have, of course.  Here&#8217;s what Santorum has to say about it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAhB_KgkYKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, OK, then. He&#8217;s saying the government does not give us ANY rights.  Rights come only from god.  His god, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>Well, OK, then. I&#8217;m a Pastafarian, and His Noodly Rights include health care. The Fundies can stay out of this if they want.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum was speaking to an audience of pouties at CPAC.  Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/cpac-santorum-says-there-no-right-health-care\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>.  Watching the Right Wing so you don&#8217;t have to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, there may not be. Rights are, in part, what we decide as a society and it is not clear that the US has decided that health care is a right. Most civilized countries have, of course. Here&#8217;s what Santorum has to say about it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[307],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1y7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959"}],"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=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}