{"id":292,"date":"2007-08-06T20:24:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T00:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/292"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:43:07","slug":"question-of-the-week-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/292","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/pqasb.pqarchiver.com\/thestar\/access\/518940021.html?dids=518940021:518940021&amp;FMT=ABS&amp;FMTS=ABS:FT&amp;date=Sep+13%2C+1993&amp;author=&amp;pub=Toronto+Star&amp;edition=&amp;startpage=A.10&amp;desc=96%25+in+poll+prefer+Canada%27s+system+of+health+care\" target=\"_blank\">a poll<\/a> taken over a decade ago, 96% of Canadians said they preferred their health care system to ours.<\/p>\n<p>A more recent poll indicates that 64% of Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/health3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">think<\/a> &#8220;the government should provide a national health insurance program for all Americans, even if this would require higher taxes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Moore&#8217;s film <em>Sicko<\/em> is the fourth highest grossing documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/genres\/chart\/?id=documentary.htm\" target=\"_blank\">of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And millions of Americans have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/health\/2003-09-30-insurance_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">no health insurance<\/a> at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>What specifically is it going to take to get Universal Health Care in this country?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a poll taken over a decade ago, 96% of Canadians said they preferred their health care system to ours. A more recent poll indicates that 64% of Americans think &#8220;the government should provide a national health insurance program for all Americans, even if this would require higher taxes&#8221;. Michael Moore&#8217;s film Sicko is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,41,6,45,9,24,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-information-literacy","category-international","category-math","category-politics","category-question","category-social-justice","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}