{"id":51,"date":"2010-01-11T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2010\/01\/healthcare-should-be-for-all\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:37:53","slug":"healthcare-should-be-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/healthcare-should-be-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Should Be For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/brookline\/news\/lifestyle\/columnists\/x370518529\/Opinion-Curing-autism-doesn-t-help-today-s-autism-families\">oped published in The Tab<\/a>, regarding the Senate&#8217;s version of the healthcare bill, in which a substantial portion of funds will be recommended for curing autism. I believe in public healthcare, certainly. I also think that if the horribly challenging co-morbid problems that often occur with autism (aggressive behaviors, for one) could be cured, many would be better off. But, I don&#8217;t believe that there is enough public attention span, energy or money for there to be this particular emphasis, rather than for job supports, independent living services, autism education, or autism family support. It&#8217;s a very deep issue that affects everyone, and really, we as a society only stand to benefit from it. There are other countries out there with free health care already! Living and breathing proof that as a system if implemented correctly improves the quality of life of its citizens greatly, among many other direct and indirect benefits as well. You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anipots.com\/\">more information here<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to read up on the specifics. I find it so sad, whenever the topic comes up there&#8217;s always pushback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an oped published in The Tab, regarding the Senate&#8217;s version of the healthcare bill, in which a substantial portion of funds will be recommended for curing autism. I believe in public healthcare, certainly. I also think that if the horribly challenging co-morbid problems that often occur with autism (aggressive behaviors, for one) could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}