{"id":120,"date":"2008-03-31T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/03\/31\/free-health-care-news\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:37:22","slug":"free-health-care-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/free-health-care-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Free&#8221; Health Care News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=515332&amp;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"_blank\">This just in<\/a> from the wonderful world of socialized medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. mandates that anyone who visits an emergency room must be treated within four hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes the demand for &#8220;free&#8221; heath care is so great a hospital can&#8217;t meet that deadline.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, they&#8217;ve come up with a novel solution.<\/p>\n<p>They leave the patients in the ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Outside.<\/p>\n<p>For an hour.\u00c2\u00a0 Or two.\u00c2\u00a0 Or <em>five<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year they did this with over 43,000 patients.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, while the sick and injured were being kept in the ambulances, waiting and waiting and waiting, those ambulances were unavailable to anyone else who had called in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t government heath care a <em>great <\/em>idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from the wonderful world of socialized medicine. The U.K. mandates that anyone who visits an emergency room must be treated within four hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes the demand for &#8220;free&#8221; heath care is so great a hospital can&#8217;t meet that deadline.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, they&#8217;ve come up with a novel solution. They leave the patients in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}