{"id":2605,"date":"2024-03-20T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:53:09","slug":"the-rick-smith-show-healthcare-is-a-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2024\/03\/20\/the-rick-smith-show-healthcare-is-a-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rick Smith Show &#8211; Healthcare is a Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we privatize a public need to create a profit motive, people get hurt. Nowhere is this more evident than in our push to privatize Medicare. Our guest today is Jenn Coffey, a former State Representative and EMT who bought into the privatized Medicare Advantage program, and then had the audacity to get sick and need care. Since then, it\u2019s been denial after denial, and red tape wrapped in red tape \u2013 it\u2019s a cautionary tale, and one that is becoming more American every day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rick Smith Show - Healthcare is a Racket\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SMVHRHRW81w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we privatize a public need to create a profit motive, people get hurt. Nowhere is this more evident than in our push to privatize Medicare. Our guest today is Jenn Coffey, a former State Representative and EMT who bought into the privatized Medicare Advantage program, and then had the audacity to get sick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}