{"id":3919,"date":"2013-11-01T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2013-11-01T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:13:57","slug":"the-first-hustler-runs-the-big-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/the-first-hustler-runs-the-big-con\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Hustler Runs the Big Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I received an email at work yesterday regarding our workplace healthcare plan, I shuddered.  No, it was not being canceled.  The co pay was going up.  Additionally, there is a tax in the future if our plan is better than the Affordable Care Act.  I thought of all the people receiving notices that their plans were being canceled.  The answer was, buy a new plan, which will also cost more.<\/p>\n<p>I pondered the reality of the health care mess and came across the post &#8220;The First Hustler Runs the Big Con&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/conservative\/pat-buchanan\/the-first-hustler-runs-the-big-con-2013-11-01.html\" target=\"_blank\" >www.creators.com<\/a>  As I read it, I thought over and over about the title of the article, &#8220;The First Hustler Runs the Big Con&#8221; and came to the conclusion, we have been conned.  I just hope we can recover from the &#8220;Big Con&#8221; so my children and grandchildren can live in freedom.       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I received an email at work yesterday regarding our workplace healthcare plan, I shuddered. No, it was not being canceled. The co pay was going up. Additionally, there is a tax in the future if our plan is better than the Affordable Care Act. I thought of all the people receiving notices that their [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17],"tags":[75,62],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}