{"id":802003,"date":"2019-12-04T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=375474"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:15:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-liddick-column-displays-complete-lack-of-awareness-about-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-liddick-column-displays-complete-lack-of-awareness-about-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Liddick column displays complete lack of awareness about health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN-1-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Morgan Liddick\u2019s most recent column, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-morgan-liddick-the-truth-about-government-health-care\/\">The truth about government health care<\/a>,\u201d was hilarious. The article outlines Liddick\u2019s recent adventures in choosing a private health care plan, facilitated by a government-run website, which acts as a marketplace to find insurance. As anyone who has ever dealt with a private health care company knows, he found the process onerous and painful. Yet somehow he concluded this is the government website\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>He is basically blaming Tinder for a bad date.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the app or website you hate, Liddick, it\u2019s the product the company is selling at the other end. This complete lack of awareness is objectively hilarious to those of us with any sense and nothing close to approaching the truth.<\/p>\n<p>You know what ends all this administrative nonsense, hand-wringing about coverage and worries about being able to see a doctor you want? \u201cMedicare for All.\u201d Get rid of the private, for-profit insurance companies. Let the government pay your doctor directly, and your administrative headaches will end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-liddick-column-displays-complete-lack-of-awareness-about-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Liddick\u2019s most recent column, \u201cThe truth about government health care,\u201d was hilarious. The article outlines Liddick\u2019s recent adventures in choosing a private health care plan, facilitated by a government-run website, which acts as a marketplace to find insurance. As anyone who has ever dealt with a private health care company knows, he found the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 04:53:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}