{"id":58248,"date":"2015-02-16T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58248"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:11:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:11:16","slug":"58248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58248","title":{"rendered":"Another Group Gets Their Eyes Forced Open \u2013 Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we go.  Another group is raising hell about having to pay a fee for not having the \u201cproper\u201d kind of healthcare.  Predictably, they don\u2019t much like it.<\/p>\n<p>Seems students at Cornell are being \u201cstrongly encouraged\u201d to join the University\u2019s healthcare system.  For those that don\u2019t, there\u2019s now a mandatory fee for not joining up.  That\u2019s true even if the individual doesn\u2019t need it <a href=\"\u201dhttp:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/02\/14\/cornell-student-body-furious-over-school-health-care-opt-out-fees\/\u201d\"><i>because they are already covered by other legally-mandatory health insurance.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you ask me, that sounds quite reminiscent of the \u201cwonderful system\u201d commonly called Obamacare.  There\u2019s a penalty for opting out there, too \u2013 even if you don\u2019t believe you need it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.  Cornell\u2019s students get little sympathy from me.  That\u2019s what happens when a regime that merely gives lip service to concepts of individual liberty and freedom \u2013 but in reality aspires to be a Soviet-style dictatorship controlling every aspect of people\u2019s lives \u2013 is in power.  They\u2019ll tell you what you must do, and take away choices you previously had.<\/p>\n<p>Besides: by and large, their parents voted for such \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">a regime<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 an Administration in DC.\u00a0 Why should they expect anything different at Cornell?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we go. Another group is raising hell about having to pay a fee for not having the \u201cproper\u201d kind of healthcare. Predictably, they don\u2019t much like it. Seems students at Cornell are being \u201cstrongly encouraged\u201d to join the University\u2019s healthcare system. For those that don\u2019t, there\u2019s now a mandatory fee for not joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-debate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4ozh1-58248","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}