{"id":747,"date":"2013-10-08T22:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2013-10-08T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T21:11:14","slug":"health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/health-care","title":{"rendered":"Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for kicks, I downloaded both the Swiss <a title=\"KVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.admin.ch\/opc\/de\/classified-compilation\/19940073\/201307010000\/832.10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Krankenversicherungsgesetz<\/a> (Health Care Insurance Law) and the <a title=\"ACA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-111hr3590enr\/pdf\/BILLS-111hr3590enr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act<\/a> (a.k.a. ACA).<\/p>\n<p>I stand in awe of US American lawyers.\u00c2\u00a0 The Swiss law checks in at 64 pages in fairly large print; the ACA at 906 pages.\u00c2\u00a0 A word count of one page each returns roughly the same amount of words per page.\u00c2\u00a0 USA vs. Switzerland: 15:1!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for kicks, I downloaded both the Swiss Krankenversicherungsgesetz (Health Care Insurance Law) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. ACA). I stand in awe of US American lawyers.\u00c2\u00a0 The Swiss law checks in at 64 pages in fairly large print; the ACA at 906 pages.\u00c2\u00a0 A word count of one page each returns roughly the same amount of words per page.\u00c2\u00a0 USA vs. Switzerland: 15:1!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}