{"id":19551,"date":"2026-07-11T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/?p=19551"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:11:47","slug":"but-its-free-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/but-its-free-2\/","title":{"rendered":"But It&#8217;s Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next time someone tells you how another country&#8217;s health care is better because it&#8217;s free, <a href=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c70yd2y6geyo\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c70yd2y6geyo\">show them this<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called EMS at 1755, again at 1805, complaing of shortness of breath. He was told no ambulance would be coming, but that a doctor would call him back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone finally called at 1907, but no one answered that call or tow others. An ambulance was finally sent at 2112,arriving at 2119. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was dead on the floor. Hey, at least it was free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time someone tells you how another country&#8217;s health care is better because it&#8217;s free, show them this. He called EMS at 1755, again at 1805, complaing of shortness of breath. He was told no ambulance would be coming, but that a doctor would call him back. Someone finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19552,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions\/19552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/areaocho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}