{"id":270,"date":"2012-09-17T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2014-07-08T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T06:04:46","slug":"back-to-the-uk-and-traveling-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/back-to-the-uk-and-traveling-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the UK &#8211; and traveling to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why we Americans need to open our minds to socialized health care: One of our band mates slipped and broke his ankle after the show Sunday night. He went to the hospital, was examined by an emergency room doctor, had X-rays, was put into a knee to ankle cast, given crutches and sent back to the hotel safe, sound and in the first stage of the healing process. His cost? As a foreigner working in the UK? An American citizen?<\/p>\n<p>Drum roll&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ZERO $$$$!!! That&#8217;s right, Americans. He paid nothing. Had he fallen at home, the out of pocket costs would have been high, even with insurance. If he didn&#8217;t happen to have insurance, he&#8217;d have been screwed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/mar\/31\/local\/la-me-lopez-erfollowup-20120401\" target=\"_blank\">see this article on emergency room costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, more Americans need to travel the world and discover where we&#8217;re tragically behind the rest of the developed world. I&#8217;m amazed&#8230;ZERO payment. SMH&#8230; Forward people..not backwards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we Americans need to open our minds to socialized health care: One of our band mates slipped and broke his ankle after the show Sunday night. He went to the hospital, was examined by an emergency room doctor, had X-rays, was put into a knee to ankle cast, given crutches and sent back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stevie-wonder","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}