{"id":805131,"date":"2020-03-11T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380327"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:30:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-government-standards-are-not-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letters-to-the-editor-government-standards-are-not-overreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor: Government standards are not overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>I fear that some readers may miss the point of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-susan-knopf-government-must-engage-not-dictate-to-the-public\/\">Susan Knopf\u2019s column from Feb 27<\/a>. She summarizes the inefficiency and poor quality of U.S. health care. \u201cMedicare for All\u201d is only one of an infinite number of systems that would be an improvement over our current nonsystem. Never forget that the Affordable Care Act was just a first step, and it was modeled after a Republican program developed by the Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that Knopf is writing with tongue in cheek when she writes, \u201cWhen government decides what\u2019s best for the people, against the will of the people, that is government overreach. We need government to balance all interests and engage the public, not dictate to the public\u201d right after writing, \u201c\u2026 even if it does save money and gives more people better access and outcomes.\u201d (We really do need a special font for sarcasm.)<\/p>\n<p>Actually, government has already decided that we will all drive on the right side of the road, and if you want to sell vegetables, cars or whiskey, these products must meet certain government standards. Does it really serve the will of the people to produce poison whiskey and dangerous cars and let us drive on the wrong side of the road? I consider this government doing its job. I don\u2019t consider this \u201cgovernment overreach.\u201d I call this civilization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor-government-standards-are-not-overreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fear that some readers may miss the point of Susan Knopf\u2019s column from Feb 27. She summarizes the inefficiency and poor quality of U.S. health care. \u201cMedicare for All\u201d is only one of an infinite number of systems that would be an improvement over our current nonsystem. Never forget that the Affordable Care Act [&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-805131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 11:21:05","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\/805131","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=805131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}