{"id":17198,"date":"2010-04-24T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-sat-24-apr-2010-201am.html"},"modified":"2010-04-24T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:01:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sat-24-apr-2010-201am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-sat-24-apr-2010-201am.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sat, 24 Apr 2010, 2:01AM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Why do we need to get for-profit companies out of the health care business? [Pharyngula]<\/a> – And here is the issue. Insurance was designed to be a joint risk pool to share costs, which justifies keeping untoward risks out of the pool. But the nature of health care costs today is that nobody can afford reasonable health care without insurance, i.e., without general shared assumption of risk. This is why for-profit insurance is harmful to the commonweal — some need assistance who cannot get it otherwise, thus it is the obligation of society (not shareholders to decide) to assist them.<\/li>\n
  2. Hey Hubble, Thanks for 20 years of Awesome [Starts With A Bang]<\/a> – Initial problems unfairly branded Hubble as a failure. Instead, it has given us some truly marvelous glimpses into the universe …<\/li>\n
  3. Palin Palaver: Former Alaska Governor Is No George Washington \u00ab The Wall of Separation<\/a> – Money graf: “Palin makes a common mistake among fundamentalists: assuming that if people take their faith seriously, they must also long to push it on everyone else through government action.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Why do we need to get for-profit companies out of the health care business? [Pharyngula] – And here is the issue. Insurance was designed to be a joint risk pool to share costs, which justifies keeping untoward risks out … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Sat, 24 Apr 2010, 2:01AM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133408,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/pre-aca-pre-existing-conditions.html","url_meta":{"origin":17198,"position":0},"title":"Pre-ACA Pre-Existing Conditions","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-17 9:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"The AHCA doesn't actually define (or limit) pre-existing conditions that states can opt out of. 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