{"id":2010,"date":"2016-02-17T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2016-02-17T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:40:16","slug":"health-reform-roils-downton-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"Health Reform Roils Downton Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>This season, Downton Abbey has a new plot line that has health wonks on the edge of their seats: a heated debate about hospital consolidation that closely parallels what\u2019s going on in the U.S. health care system today.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not a Downton fan (and even if you are), here\u2019s a quick plot recap.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 1925 for the lords and ladies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/downtonabbey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Downton Abbey <\/a>\u2014\u00a0think flapper dresses, cocktail parties and women\u2019s rights. A big hospital in the nearby city of York is making a play to take over the Downton Cottage Hospital next to the posh estate. Or as Maggie Smith\u2019s character, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, sees it, \u201cThe royal Yorkshire county hospital wants to take over our little hospital, which is outrageous! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/health-reform-roils-downton-abbey\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=26327110&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9UJwfme2nN89LG_hOL7BLCBGNm8et1tYTvSfR0tNc-CoJGyE7kUZoTdl4a1xOrnLYUF_suAhOIfQ9yiO3JYH7yjVy3WQ&amp;_hsmi=26327110\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News) This season, Downton Abbey has a new plot line that has health wonks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}