{"id":25195,"date":"2017-07-17T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/23-million-americans-would-lose-health-care\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:05:57","slug":"23-million-americans-would-lose-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/23-million-americans-would-lose-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"23 million Americans would lose health care"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan,<\/p>\n

I just read a newspaper article the title of which was “Health care Repeal.” That headline prompted me to get out my trusty Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and look up the word “repeal.” The definition is as follows:<\/p>\n

Repeal: transitive verb (14th century)<\/p>\n

1: to rescind or annul by authoritative act; esp: to revoke or abrogate by legislative enactment.<\/p>\n

2: abandon, renounce.<\/p>\n

Should you vote yes on health care repeal, you will indeed do precisely that. You will rescind, annul, revoke, abrogate, abandon and renounce health care for 23 million citizens.<\/p>\n

I urge you each to vote no on health care repeal.<\/p>\n

Nothing needs to be repealed to reform (a: to put or change into an improved form or condition. b: to amend or improve by change of form) the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

Please do that.<\/p>\n

William Dillon,<\/p>\n

Juneau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, I just read a newspaper article the title of which was “Health<\/a> care Repeal.” That headline prompted me to get out my trusty Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and look up the word “repeal.” The definition is as follows: Repeal: transitive verb (14th century) 1: to rescind or annul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25195"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}