{"id":399,"date":"2009-02-19T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/399"},"modified":"2016-04-03T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T16:36:00","slug":"healthcare-and-our-ever-expanding-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/399","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare and our Ever-Expanding Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our government, which already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostrepublic.us\/archives\/154\">directly employs a seventh a America&#8217;s labor force (22 million people)<\/a>, is doing what government does best.  It is growing &#8211; in size, cost and invasiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Its growth into the healthcare industry is particularly interesting to me because of the enthusiasm with which so many of my liberal friends welcome it. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Once government is paying for our healthcare . . . they&#8217;ll eventually claim dominion over our diets and health-related habits.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/article\/20090219\/OPINION05\/902190331\">Read more at press-citizen.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our government, which already directly employs a seventh a America&#8217;s labor force (22 million people), is doing what government does best. It is growing &#8211; in size, cost and invasiveness. Its growth into the healthcare industry is particularly interesting to me because of the enthusiasm with which so many of my liberal friends welcome it. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/archives\/399\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/romanskaskiw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}