{"id":2456445,"date":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=323453"},"modified":"2020-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T06:00:00","slug":"heed-the-spanish-on-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/heed-the-spanish-on-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed the Spanish on public option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Faced with nearly 10,000 cases and over 300 deaths from coronavirus, Spain recently nationalized all of its hospitals and health care providers. Italy might well follow suit. Privately run health care is motivated by profit, therefore, away from its original intent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Keep this in mind when you\u2019re viewing the supremely nonfactual deluge of television ads hospital and insurance organizations are putting out there encouraging our state legislators to vote against the public option health care program. The public option won\u2019t increase medical costs for the individual, but it could cut into the bottom line for the hospital and insurance industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/heed-the-spanish-on-public-option\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with nearly 10,000 cases and over 300 deaths from coronavirus, Spain recently nationalized all of its hospitals and health care providers. Italy might well follow suit. Privately run health care is motivated by profit, therefore, away from its original intent. Keep this in mind when you\u2019re viewing the supremely nonfactual deluge of television ads [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 07:25:05","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}