{"id":34398,"date":"2013-03-06T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34398"},"modified":"2013-03-06T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:36:29","slug":"commondreams-strike-debt-declares-healthcare-emergency-its-a-matter-of-life-or-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/03\/06\/commondreams-strike-debt-declares-healthcare-emergency-its-a-matter-of-life-or-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"CommonDreams: Strike Debt Declares Healthcare Emergency: It&#8217;s a Matter of &#8216;Life or Debt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strike Debt, one of the offshoot groups of Occupy Wall Street, has planned a week of action March 16-23 in response to what it calls a &#8220;healthcare emergency.&#8221; A majority of personal bankruptcies in the United States are linked to medical bills with 75 percent of people declaring bankruptcy even though they have health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These debts are literally killing patients, students, providers and communities,&#8221; Strike Debt states at its website. &#8220;They deepen the already entrenched inequalities that divide races, classes and genders. Our healthcare system doesn&#8217;t make us well; it prolongs our illnesses in the name of profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it remains unclear what the group specifically has planned\u2014the page suggests supporters &#8220;stay tuned for updates&#8221;\u2014Strike Debt does ensure they will make a &#8220;big announcement in March,&#8221; and provides a list of activism suggestions for supporters, including protesting closed community hospitals, private insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and\/or engaging in creative direct action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike Debt, one of the offshoot groups of Occupy Wall Street, has planned a week of action March 16-23 in response to what it calls a &#8220;healthcare emergency.&#8221; A majority of personal bankruptcies in the United States are linked to medical bills with 75 percent of people declaring bankruptcy even though they have health insurance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34399,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions\/34399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}