{"id":1632,"date":"2014-06-04T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:32:20","slug":"a-prayer-for-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/a-prayer-for-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>tune: Hole in the Bucket<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patient:<\/strong><br> There&#8217;s a pain in my stomach, dear doctor, dear doctor,<br> There\u2019s a pain in my stomach and I\u2019ve got a cough.<br> Can I get an appointment, if you\u2019re not too busy<br> Attending conventions or out playing golf?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doctor:<\/strong><br> I wish I could help you, but you\u2019ve got no money,<br> And I can\u2019t afford treating patients like you.<br> There\u2019s a hole in my pocket, my life style is slipping.<br> I used to have three cars\u2014now I only have two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patient:<\/strong><br> But if you won\u2019t treat me I might get pneumonia,<br> Iliitis, bronchitis or something much worse.<br> And hospitals say they can\u2019t take on more patients.<br> They can\u2019t find the money for one extra nurse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doctor:<\/strong><br> Then phone up Bill Clinton, dear patient, dear patient,<br> Newt Gingrich and all of those nice GOPs.<br> You can\u2019t expect doctors to care about patients.<br> We might lose our money and catch some disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patient:<\/strong><br> But what do we do if we cannot afford you?<br> What do we do if we start to feel ill?<br><strong> Doctor<\/strong>: We could sell you our CD, we call it \u201cDear Doctor.\u201d<br> It comes with advice and a free headache pill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient: There&#8217;s a pain in my stomach, dear doctor, dear doctor, There\u2019s a pain in my stomach and I\u2019ve got a cough. Can I get an appointment, if you\u2019re not too busy Attending conventions or out playing golf? Doctor: I wish I could help you, but you\u2019ve got no money, And I can\u2019t afford treating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}