{"id":23177,"date":"2011-10-24T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-oct-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-10-24T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T17:30:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-24-oct-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/unblogged-bits-mon-24-oct-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 24-Oct-11 1130)"},"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. More states limiting Medicaid hospital stays \u2013 USATODAY.com<\/a> – Why, yes, let’s attempt to cut costs (or push those costs onto others) by arbitrarily capping hospital days. That will get those malingering poor people to get better more quickly, I’ll bet.<\/li>\n
  2. Bachmann: Uninsured Americans Can Rely On ‘Charitable Organizations’ For Health Care | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Yeah. Because that’s been working so well. There’s nobody out there who really needs any health care costs covered, which is why there’s nobody on Medicare on Medicaid or going to the Emergency Room as indigents to get desperately needed care.<\/li>\n
  3. A turn of the page of history: \u201cWhen will Arabs awaken?\u201d<\/a> – A remarkable photo, in retrospect.<\/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 …. More states limiting Medicaid hospital stays \u2013 USATODAY.com – Why, yes, let’s attempt to cut costs (or push those costs onto others) by arbitrarily capping hospital days. That will get those malingering poor people to get better more quickly, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 24-Oct-11 1130)”<\/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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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-23177","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":133731,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/oh-boy-only-22-million-more-lose-their-insurance-with-this-plan.html","url_meta":{"origin":23177,"position":0},"title":"Oh, boy, ONLY 22 million more lose their insurance with THIS plan!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jun-17 6:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And as Republicans pop champagne and congratulate themselves for being marginally less \"mean\" (as the Donald put it) on this iteration of the bill, bear in mind that ...... the CBO only scores out ten years. 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