{"id":1726,"date":"2012-12-05T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2012-12-05T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:40:56","slug":"an-effect-of-the-healthcare-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/an-effect-of-the-healthcare-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"An effect of the healthcare industrial complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job<br \/>\nFew people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/05\/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/05\/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The revolving door spins &#8217;round and &#8217;round.  I can&#8217;t put it any better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis is precisely the behavior which, quite rationally, makes the citizenry so jaded about Washington. It&#8217;s what ensures that the interests of the same permanent power factions are served regardless of election outcomes. It&#8217;s what makes a complete mockery out claims of democracy. And it&#8217;s what demonstrates that corporatism and oligarchy are the dominant forms of government in the US&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To think that the GOP would have done the tiniest thing to overturn &#8216;Obamacare&#8217; is to demonstrate complete cluelessness (of course, our society abounds with such).  I have huge objections to the program, but because it didn&#8217;t go far enough (indeed, I don&#8217;t think it went anywhere, I see it as no more than a huge gift to the health insurance industry).<\/p>\n<p>When corruption is so thoroughly endemic, can there be any hope of change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/dec\/05\/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1 The revolving door spins &#8217;round and &#8217;round. I can&#8217;t put it any better: This is precisely the behavior which, quite rationally, makes the citizenry so jaded about Washington. It&#8217;s what ensures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/05\/an-effect-of-the-healthcare-industrial-complex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An effect of the healthcare industrial complex&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,16,11,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}