{"id":2356,"date":"2009-06-30T08:24:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2009-06-30T08:24:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T13:24:57","slug":"so-what-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/so-what-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"So, what are we going to do about this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or realistically, what <i>can<\/i> we do?<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillstanek.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/does_obama_deci.html\">Jill Stanek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-health25-2009jun25,0,1978875.story\">LA Times<\/a><\/i>, June 25:<br \/>\n<i>President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don&#8217;t stand to gain from the extra care.<\/i><br \/>\nRead that again. Obama was subtly promoting euthanasia&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don&#8217;t unthinkingly approve &#8220;additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;Maybe you&#8217;re better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller.&#8221;<\/i><\/blockquot><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or realistically, what can we do? Via Jill Stanek: From the LA Times, June 25: President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don&#8217;t stand to gain from the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/so-what-are-we\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So, what are we going to do about this?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-issues","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}