{"id":6459,"date":"2017-10-13T14:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2017-10-13T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T21:23:42","slug":"cant-afford-not-single-payer-brian-stompe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/cant-afford-not-single-payer-brian-stompe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WE CAN\u2019T AFFORD NOT TO DO SINGLE PAYER!&#8221; by Brian Stompe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aolmail_MsoNormal\">This is a response to the Joe Mathews opinion piece &#8220;My Doubts About Single-Payer Just Show I&#8217;m Sick in the Head&#8221; which appeared in last Sunday&#8217;s Chronicle (October 8, 2017):<\/p>\n<div>In Sunday SF Chronicle Insight, Joe Mathews said he was disappointed with himself for not being 100% supportive of single-payer health care, and comes on like a health insurance company trying to keep the deadly, fractured, expensive system we have. A study completed a couple months ago by 4 PHD\u2019s at U of Mass. Amherst detailed how CA is spending $368.5 billion on health care and would spend $330 billion if it adopted single payer with CA, SB 562, saving $37.5 billion a year, and detailed two options for financing CA single payer. Mathew\u2019s $400 billion cost is a bogus figure used by those who want to keep enriching the insurance industry CA does not need. With the 6<sup>th<\/sup><span class=\"aolmail_m_-4309315645635843849Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>largest economy in the world CA can easily self ensure for health care .Go on line, Joe! U. of Mass. Pollin Report on CA SB 562.<span class=\"aolmail_m_-4309315645635843849Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div>Brian Stompe<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a response to the Joe Mathews opinion piece &#8220;My Doubts About Single-Payer Just Show I&#8217;m Sick in the Head&#8221; which appeared in last Sunday&#8217;s Chronicle (October 8, 2017): In Sunday SF Chronicle Insight, Joe Mathews said he was disappointed with himself for not being 100% supportive of single-payer&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/cant-afford-not-single-payer-brian-stompe\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6462,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}