{"id":1574,"date":"2007-07-03T08:21:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sicko-psycho-whats-the-diff\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:21:55","slug":"sicko-psycho-whats-the-diff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sicko-psycho-whats-the-diff","title":{"rendered":"Sicko, Psycho: what’s the diff?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty sure when Michael Moore proposed that America’s healthcare system adopt the model of the NHS in Britain<\/a> —<\/p>\n

Now, the British system is really government-owned, in the sense that the government owns and runs the hospitals, the government employs the doctors. And so, they work for the government, so it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s very much a government-owned and -run and -controlled program in Britain. And again, you know, everything is free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— he wasn’t thinking of this guy and his pals:<\/p>\n

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I’m pretty sure when Michael Moore proposed that America’s healthcare system adopt the model of the NHS in Britain — Now, the British system is really government-owned, in the sense that the government owns and runs the hospitals, the government employs the doctors. And so, they work for the government, so it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s very much a … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Sicko, Psycho: what’s the diff?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-po","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1550,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sprawl-for-some","url_meta":{"origin":1574,"position":0},"title":"Sprawl for Some","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't recall why I never finished reading Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl: A Compact History. 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