{"id":613,"date":"2009-07-13T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-07-13T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T16:32:10","slug":"why-health-care-is-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/why-health-care-is-so-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why health care is so expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I finally got around to reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/06\/01\/090601fa_fact_gawande\" target=\"_blank\">Atul Gawande&#8217;s excellent New Yorker essay<\/a> on why health care costs vary so wildly throughout the country. His conclusion\u2014that this variance results from whether doctors approach their profession as a business or as a commitment to caring for patients\u2014is so simple that many seem to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2009\/06\/atul-gawande-the-cost-conundrum-redux.html\" target=\"_blank\">a difficult time<\/a> accepting it. His article and follow-up are must reads for anyone who cares about health care in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I finally got around to reading Atul Gawande&#8217;s excellent New Yorker essay on why health care costs vary so wildly throughout the country. His conclusion\u2014that this variance results from whether doctors approach their profession as a business or as a commitment to caring for patients\u2014is so simple that many seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}