{"id":447,"date":"2017-07-01T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T02:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=447"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:45:53","slug":"equality-in-single-payer-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/07\/01\/equality-in-single-payer-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality in Single Payor Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Single Payor slogan, we hear so much about,<br \/>\nseems to be the simple answer when in need of care.<br \/>\nIts claim is that it&#8217;s fairer &#8211; all treated just the same,<br \/>\nas equal waits of equal time in equal lines are shared.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if you&#8217;re wealthy, no special inside track.<br \/>\nYour dollars mean no special access, when the lines are long.<br \/>\nThere is no special pass if healthcare is at stake &#8211;<br \/>\na Single Payor system means &#8211; ALL equally belong.<\/p>\n<p>Each lobbyist on K Street and &#8211; all government officials,<br \/>\ntalk show hosts, and congressman, and west coast starlets too &#8211;<br \/>\nSoros, Koch, and Bush &#8211; Steyer, Trump and others,<br \/>\nequal waits in equal lines, for everyone plus you.<\/p>\n<p>When there&#8217;s a wheeler dealer &#8211; selling Single Payor,<br \/>\nbe sure to ask if everyone &#8211; EVERYONE&#8217;S included.<br \/>\nThose Single Payor mavens, and everyone who had<br \/>\na hand in building Single Payor, should not be excluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Random Poet:063017<br \/>\n(www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Single Payor slogan, we hear so much about, seems to be the simple answer when in need of care. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2017\/07\/01\/equality-in-single-payer-health-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equality in Single Payor Health Care<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-pre-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}