{"id":52138,"date":"2013-12-05T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=52138"},"modified":"2013-12-05T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:58:23","slug":"obamacares-architects-plugged-their-ears-and-misled-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=52138","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Obamacare&#8217;s architects plugged their ears and misled public&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/obamacares-architects-plugged-their-ears-and-misled-public\/article\/2540169?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20Reoccurring%20-%2012\/05\/2013&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest\">Poor Michael Barone:<\/a>  he still thinks ObamaCare is about &#8220;health care.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>It never was.  And so the politics of its roll-out, or the strategy for its implementation, based as it was on perhaps rosy predictions of the President&#8217;s sonorous rhetorical prowess, is only of ancillary interest.  ObamaCare is about wealth redistribution. As Obama has now said explicitly, and as Donald Berwick noted publicly long ago, which didn&#8217;t stop Obama from nominating him for head of CMS.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <em>it&#8217;s why he nominated him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2Kevz_9lsw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t fight the scourge of statism if we continue to pretend the forest and the trees are one in the same.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written at length on the power of language, but here&#8217;s a quick lesson that may prove useful:  don&#8217;t be afraid to identify a thing for what it is.  Because once you&#8217;ve done that, you&#8217;ve identified what it is you&#8217;re dealing with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor Michael Barone: he still thinks ObamaCare is about &#8220;health care.&#8221; It never was. And so the politics of its roll-out, or the strategy for its implementation, based as it was on perhaps rosy predictions of the President&#8217;s sonorous rhetorical prowess, is only of ancillary interest. ObamaCare is about wealth redistribution. As Obama has now said explicitly, and as Donald Berwick noted publicly long ago, which didn&#8217;t stop Obama from<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=52138\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52139,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52138\/revisions\/52139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}