{"id":1048,"date":"2009-04-06T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2009-04-10T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T03:50:38","slug":"practical-definition-fair-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/practical-definition-fair-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical definition:  Fair share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fair share:\u00a0 What I think you should spend on stuff that I want<\/p>\n<p>Example:\u00a0 Massachusetts experiment in universal health care, dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pubs\/policy_report\/v30n1\/cpr30n1-1.html\">RomneyCare<\/a> by some, is&#8230;guess what&#8230;costing more than anticipated.\u00a0 This was one of those public-private partnerships where the state makes a deal with private firms in order to get them to accept a big, hairy policy change.\u00a0\u00a0 The state then sees that the changes they forced on everyone cost more and did less than originally advertised, then goes back to change the deal with the private firms to their detriment.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, a consumer group called Health Care for All (don&#8217;t you love how these self-styled groups get labeled as such by the uncritical press?) says, through a spokesman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Increasingly employers are getting tremendous benefits under health reform. The question is not whether employers are doing their fair share for the employees they are covering, it&#8217;s whether they are doing their fair share for their employees the state is covering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The translation is, &#8220;The state needs the money.\u00a0 These private companies should be providing it, because that is how I figure it.&#8221;\u00a0 How this group or the state figures things, of course, is less important than that they&#8217;re doing the figuring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair share:\u00a0 What I think you should spend on stuff that I want Example:\u00a0 Massachusetts experiment in universal health care, dubbed RomneyCare by some, is&#8230;guess what&#8230;costing more than anticipated.\u00a0 This was one of those public-private partnerships where the state makes a deal with private firms in order to get them to accept a big, hairy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectivist-instinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}