{"id":209977,"date":"2026-02-09T22:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209977"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:22:30","slug":"is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209977","title":{"rendered":"Is it Time to Cut Our Losses on Healthcare Coverage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today) &#8212; For over a decade, the American health policy debate has been stuck in a loop, obsessively focused on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While the political battles rage over this specific slice of the pie, we risk missing the forest&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/119473\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today) &#8212; For over a decade, the American health policy debate has been stuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage.jpg",1600,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage.jpg",1600,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209977-is-it-time-to-cut-our-losses-on-healthcare-coverage-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}