{"id":551,"date":"2007-12-31T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/31\/crying-in-the-wilderness\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T19:32:19","slug":"crying-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/crying-in-the-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Crying in the Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure Michael Moore is tearing his hair out these days, listening to<br \/>\nthe various Democratic presidential candidates botching the election.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Vilsack, co-chair of Hilary Clinton&#8217;s campaign, stated, &#8220;Last year,<br \/>\n18,000 Americans died because they didn&#8217;t have health insurance.&#8221;&nbsp;<br \/>\nExcuse me.&nbsp; Not one person has ever died from not having health<br \/>\ninsurance.&nbsp; Many thousands have died from not enough or inadequate<br \/>\nhealth CARE.&nbsp; This statement was made on C-SPAN, in a talk with every<br \/>\nmajor Democratic candidate&#8217;s campaign manager at the table, and not one<br \/>\nperson disputed it.&nbsp; NOT ONE.<\/p>\n<p>We KNOW Hillary sold out to the insurance industry.&nbsp; It&#8217;s all over her<br \/>\ndeclaration of monies received, both for her Senate campaign and her<br \/>\nPresidential campaign.&nbsp; She is still using the capital she gained by<br \/>\nTRYING to get Universal Health Care to make people believe that she<br \/>\nhasn&#8217;t changed&#8230; but it&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>Even John Edwards, who in 2003 said he wanted every American to have<br \/>\nthe same coverage that every member of Congress has, has only talked<br \/>\nabout insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear about this.&nbsp; We are the only nation in the &#8220;civilized<br \/>\nworld&#8221; that does not have government-sponsored universal health CARE.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe insurance companies do not even exist in most countries; there is<br \/>\nno profit for them to take when everyone is equally served.&nbsp; Democratic<br \/>\ncandidates only want to change how many people are paying insurance<br \/>\ncompanies (or are being paid for, by the government).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s different from the Republicans; except for Ron Paul,<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t even acknowledge that the system is broke.&nbsp; I guess they<br \/>\nthink the insurance companies have enough money already &#8212; and I assure<br \/>\nyou that is true.<\/p>\n<p>Climbing off the soap box.&nbsp; Anyone is welcome to use these ideas to light a fire under someone&#8217;s ass&#8230; except mine, LOL<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure Michael Moore is tearing his hair out these days, listening to the various Democratic presidential candidates botching the election. Tom Vilsack, co-chair of Hilary Clinton&#8217;s campaign, stated, &#8220;Last year, 18,000 Americans died because they didn&#8217;t have health insurance.&#8221;&nbsp; Excuse me.&nbsp; Not one person has ever died from not having health insurance.&nbsp; Many thousands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}