{"id":368,"date":"2009-09-13T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T20:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2009\/09\/want-health-care-in-america-rob-a-bank.html"},"modified":"2009-09-13T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T20:17:26","slug":"want-health-care-in-america-rob-a-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2009\/09\/want-health-care-in-america-rob-a-bank.html","title":{"rendered":"Want Health Care in  America?  Rob a Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are really no words of kindness to describe the people who knowingly defend a health care system that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/13\/opinion\/13kristof.html?ref=opinion\">can allow this to happen<\/a> when there are many countries less rich than ours where it cannot.<\/p>\n<p>There are words to describe people who would perpetuate this system in the name of their religion.&nbsp; But I&#8217;d probably get yanked from Beliefnet if I used the ones I believe are most appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are really no words of kindness to describe the people who knowingly defend a health care system that can allow this to happen when there are many countries less rich than ours where it cannot. 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