{"id":78040,"date":"2012-07-29T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78040"},"modified":"2012-07-29T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T07:19:26","slug":"uk-the-blind-treating-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78040","title":{"rendered":"UK: The Blind Treating the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/brickbat-that-will-make-you-go-blind\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the United Kingdom, the Royal National Institute of Blind People reports that more than half of the nation&#8217;s National Health Service trusts are restricting cataract surgery. The institute says the trusts have imposed tougher standards for offering the surgery, standards that could force patients to wait until their vision has seriously deteriorated before getting surgery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just love that government health care? Don&#8217;t you just wish that America had a system like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. In the United Kingdom, the Royal National Institute of Blind People reports that more than half of the nation&#8217;s National Health Service trusts are restricting cataract surgery. The institute says the trusts have imposed tougher standards for offering the surgery, standards that could force patients to wait until their vision has seriously deteriorated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78042,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78040\/revisions\/78042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}