{"id":54343,"date":"2017-06-29T02:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54343"},"modified":"2017-06-29T02:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T02:30:51","slug":"can-we-just-pretend-that-white-people-wrote-the-aca-and-enjoy-it-like-elvis-presley-but-with-healthcare-or-can-we-just-pretend-to-discover-that-it-was-always-a-part-of-our-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54343","title":{"rendered":"Can we just pretend that White people wrote the ACA and enjoy it? Like Elvis Presley, but with healthcare. Or can we just pretend to discover that it was always a part of our healthcare system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Can we just pretend that White people wrote the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACA<\/a> and enjoy it? Like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elvis_Presley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis Presley<\/a>, but with healthcare. Or can we just pretend to discover that it was always a part of our healthcare system? Like when you \u201cdiscover\u201d that you\u2019ve always been able to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Treasure_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>National Treasure<\/em><\/a> for free at the library. Yea. That. But with flawed but reasonably crafted insurance marketplaces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David Bradley Isenberg, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Only Protested the Affordable Care Act Because the President Was Black. Please Don\u2019t Take Away My Health Insurance<\/a>,\u201d <em>McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency<\/em>, June 27, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/i-only-protested-the-affordable-care-act-because-the-president-was-black-please-dont-take-away-my-health-insurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/i-only-protested-the-affordable-care-act-because-the-president-was-black-please-dont-take-away-my-health-insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we just pretend that White people wrote the ACA and enjoy it? Like Elvis Presley, but with healthcare. Or can we just pretend to discover that it was always a part of our healthcare system? Like when you \u201cdiscover\u201d that you\u2019ve always been able to check out National Treasure for free at the library. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20190,24471,27178,27177,24472],"class_list":["post-54343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-aca","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-david-bradley-isenberg","tag-mcsweeneys-internet-tendency","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54344,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54343\/revisions\/54344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}