{"id":819,"date":"2012-05-15T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:57","slug":"in-health-care-cheaper-can-mean-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"In health care, cheaper can mean better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Donald M. Berwick &#8211; May 14, 2012 -The Boston Globe &#8211;\u00a0 An Irish adage says: \u201cWhen you come to a wall that is too high to climb, throw your hat over the wall, and then go get your hat.\u201d That\u2019s what Massachusetts started with its 2006 law requiring just about everyone to get coverage and arranging to make that coverage affordable. Now, it\u2019s time to get the hat.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-05-14\/opinion\/31680787_1_health-care-care-at-lower-cost-hospital-bed-days\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Donald M. Berwick &#8211; May 14, 2012 -The Boston Globe &#8211;\u00a0 An Irish adage says: \u201cWhen you come to a wall that is too high to climb, throw your <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=819\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[282,107,283,280,281],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-donald-m-berwick","tag-health-care-costs","tag-massachusetts","tag-massachusetts-health-care","tag-universal-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}