{"id":6530,"date":"2009-08-10T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2009-08-10T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T18:30:49","slug":"rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6530","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=333933006516877\">Investor's Business Daily<\/a> is stupid and wants you to be stupid too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the \"quality adjusted life year.\"<\/p>\n<p>One year in perfect health gets you one point. Deductions are taken for blindness, for being in a wheelchair and so on.<\/p>\n<p>The more points you have, the more your life is considered worth saving, and the likelier you are to get care.<\/p>\n<p>People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> is British, and lives in the UK, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investor's Business Daily is stupid and wants you to be stupid too: The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the \"quality adjusted life year.\" One year in perfect health gets you one point. Deductions are taken for blindness, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}