{"id":535,"date":"2008-09-17T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T21:00:22","slug":"furphy-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Furphy 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/national\/xenophon-to-oppose-medicare-bill-20080915-4gte.html\">Xenophon to oppose Medicare bill<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Independent senator Nick Xenophon says he will not support the federal government&#8217;s proposed increase to the Medicare surcharge levy income threshold.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The government expects 600,000 people to drop out of private health insurance if the bill goes through, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t someone please remind me exactly <em>why<\/em> a country with a national healthcare system even HAS private health care and insurance available? Doesn&#8217;t one undermine the other?<\/p>\n<p>If 600,000 people drop out of private health cover, perhaps the government will find some motivation to properly fund the public health system.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenophon to oppose Medicare bill Independent senator Nick Xenophon says he will not support the federal government&#8217;s proposed increase to the Medicare surcharge levy income threshold. [&#8230;] The government expects 600,000 people to drop out of private health insurance if the bill goes through, he said. Wouldn&#8217;t someone please remind me exactly why a country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}