{"id":362,"date":"2017-09-22T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2017-09-22T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T03:44:13","slug":"super-steamed-at-the-senate-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/super-steamed-at-the-senate-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Super steamed at the Senate Republicans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"363\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/22\/super-steamed-at-the-senate-republicans\/anger-18658_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anger-18658_640.jpg?fit=427%2C640\" data-orig-size=\"427,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"anger-18658_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anger-18658_640.jpg?fit=427%2C640\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-363\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anger-18658_640.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anger-18658_640.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anger-18658_640.jpg?w=427 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>I cannot believe it! \u00a0The Republicans are still trying to repeal and replace Obamacare!<\/p>\n<p>Are they completely so cold-hearted? \u00a0Do they really care more about profits than people? \u00a0Hiding behind this mask of &#8220;liberty and freedom of choice&#8221; is such a smoke-screen IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>One person&#8217;s freedom to choose &#8220;no&#8221; to paying for someone else&#8217;s health insurance now can have disastrous consequences if the same person who chose not to pay now has to pay later when they are facing catastrophic illness or injury.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about. \u00a0Catastrophic care and basic essential healthcare (NOT wasting emergency department resources when you have the sniffles!) should be a basic human right!<\/p>\n<p>This is what we are fighting for. \u00a0This is one element of our society that has been tanked and exacerbated because of the inequality in our society.<\/p>\n<p>What would Jesus do?<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t call Him, &#8220;the Great Healer,&#8221; for no reason at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot believe it! \u00a0The Republicans are still trying to repeal and replace Obamacare! Are they completely so cold-hearted? \u00a0Do they really care more about profits than people? \u00a0Hiding behind this mask of &#8220;liberty and freedom of choice&#8221; is such a smoke-screen IMHO. One person&#8217;s freedom to choose &#8220;no&#8221; to paying for someone else&#8217;s health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-5Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/anger-18658_640.jpg?fit=427%2C640","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}