{"id":1697,"date":"2005-08-23T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2005-08-23T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T09:04:26","slug":"gladwell_on_our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Gladwell on our Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2005\/08\/just_how_bad_is.html\">Malcolm Gladwell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>One of the great mysteries of political life i  the United States is why Americans are s  devoted to their health-care system. Six times i  the past century&mdash;during the First World War  during the Depression, during the Truman an  Johnson Administrations, in the Senate in th  nineteen-seventies, and during the Clinton years&mdash;efforts have been made to introduce som  kind of universal health insurance, and eac  time the efforts have been rejected. Instead, th  United States has opted for a makeshift syste  of increasing complexity and dysfunction  Americans spend $5,267 per capita on healt  care every year, almost two and half times th  industrialized world&rsquo;s median of $2,193; th  extra spending comes to hundreds of billions o  dollars a year.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2005\/08\/just_how_bad_is.html\">Tyler Cowen offers a number of counterpoints<\/a>, links really, to Gladwell&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Gladwell: One of the great mysteries of political life i the United States is why Americans are s devoted to their health-care system. Six times i the past century&mdash;during the First World War during the Depression, during the Truman an Johnson Administrations, in the Senate in th nineteen-seventies, and during the Clinton years&mdash;efforts have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}