{"id":2773,"date":"2019-07-30T20:27:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T00:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2019-07-30T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T00:28:14","slug":"when-you-cant-buy-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"When You Can&#8217;t &#8220;Buy In&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/kamalacare\/kamalacare.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/kamalacare\/kamalacare650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"955\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It isn&#8217;t just that Kamala Harris has the gall<\/strong> to straight-up rip off the name &#8220;Medicare For All&#8221; for her hack-ass healthcare proposal, nor is it just the convoluted, typically technocratic Rube Goldberg nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@KamalaHarris\/my-plan-for-medicare-for-all-7730370dd421\" target=\"_blank\">her grand plan,<\/a> nor the fact that it builds on the &#8220;success&#8221; of Obamacare \u2013 a healthcare policy written by the Heritage Foundation. It&#8217;s the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/29\/kamala-harris-medicare-for-all-1438631\" target=\"_blank\">Kamalacare involves the health insurance industry<\/a> \u2013 the heart of the very problem we&#8217;re trying to eliminate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/kamalacare\/kamala_medium_screenshot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/kamalacare\/kamala_medium_screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t get me started on all her talk about &#8220;buying in&#8221; \u2013 basically no different from Obamacare, where people who are already struggling are forced to have &#8220;some skin in the game&#8221;, in the words of our beloved ex-President.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it&#8217;s going to be phased in over ten years. <strong>Ten years.<\/strong> Fat lot of good that&#8217;s going to do for all the people having to crowdfund their surgeries and are being gouged for their insulin <em>right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;16 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/kamalacare\/kamalacare.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.2mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t just that Kamala Harris has the gall to straight-up rip off the name &#8220;Medicare For All&#8221; for her hack-ass healthcare proposal, nor is it just the convoluted, typically technocratic Rube Goldberg nature of her grand plan, nor the fact that it builds on the &#8220;success&#8221; of Obamacare \u2013 a healthcare policy written by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[958,7,20,132],"tags":[996,997,946],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-elections","category-health-care","category-party-animals","tag-kamala-harris","tag-kamalacare","tag-medicare-for-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}