{"id":605382,"date":"2009-11-16T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"f49825d7-2fcd-471f-80a1-6ab7027c62cc"},"modified":"2009-11-16T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T14:57:00","slug":"a-challenge-to-dartmouth-atlas-claims-of-wasteful-health-care-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605382","title":{"rendered":"A Challenge To Dartmouth Atlas&#8217; Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/16\/Cooper-Debate.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> staff writer Jordan Rau reports on Dr. Richard Cooper's contrarian views. \"Cooper, a 73-year-old University of Pennsylvania medical school professor, ... \u00a0denounced as 'malarkey' a reigning premise of the health care debate -- that one-third of the nation's $2.5 trillion in annual health spending is unnecessary -- and said that the idea came from 'a bunch of clowns' (11\/16). This story was produced in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/magazine\/70169132.html\" >The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/16\/Cooper-Debate.aspx\" >Read the entire article<\/a>. Rau also details\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/November\/16\/Cooper-Debate-Responses.aspx\" >reaction<\/a> to Cooper's challenge (11\/16).<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/4gM3C1kNWC4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau reports on Dr. Richard Cooper&#8217;s contrarian views. &#8220;Cooper, a 73-year-old University of Pennsylvania medical school professor, &#8230; \u00a0denounced as &#8216;malarkey&#8217; a reigning premise of the health care debate &#8212; that one-third of the nation&#8217;s $2.5 trillion in annual health spending is unnecessary &#8212; and said that the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xue","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}