{"id":27209,"date":"2019-04-15T22:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27209"},"modified":"2019-04-15T22:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:44:33","slug":"my-attempt-to-correct-some-facebook-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27209","title":{"rendered":"My attempt to correct some Facebook BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/maryland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/06\/Kaiser-Permanente-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Kaiser Permanente logo- the first wannabe HMO)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nI just read some candidate for Congress&#8217;s explanation that the US didn&#8217;t have &#8220;for profit&#8221; health insurance until Richard Nixon passed a law in 1973. I knew that was nonsense and quickly found the truth in good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/healthcare-profit-1973-hmo-act\/\"><\/a>old Snopes.com the original killer of urban legends:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I put in Facebook:<\/p>\n<p>This is not true. It&#8217;s a meme circulated by people unfamiliar with the long devolution of health care coverage in the U.S..<\/p>\n<p>I thought Snopes.com, the original Internet source to swat down urban legends, might have a correction of this false information and I was not disappointed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/healthcare-profit-1973-hmo-act\/\">The truth behind HMO meme.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Dad had been a Kansas State  insurance investigator in the 1950&#8217;s making sure that &#8220;for profit&#8221; companies were not selling unfunded insurance. He taught insurance at Mankato University in the 1960s thru the 1980s  He testified before Congress supporting HMOs in the 1970&#8217;s arguing that by incentivizing everyone to offer preventive care Medicare costs could be prevented from exploding.   <\/p>\n<p>Whoever this wannabe Congressional candidate is he owes it to himself to learn the history of this critical subject.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I am about ready for national health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Kaiser Permanente logo- the first wannabe HMO) I just read some candidate for Congress&#8217;s explanation that the US didn&#8217;t have &#8220;for profit&#8221; health insurance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27209"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27226,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209\/revisions\/27226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}