{"id":65,"date":"2016-08-08T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2016\/08\/08\/are-you-being-ob-served\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:04:00","slug":"are-you-being-ob-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2016\/08\/08\/are-you-being-ob-served\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you being (ob)served?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A large and possibly calamitous financial hole for the aged and infirm at the intersection of two metrics tied tightly to incentives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flexibility and discretion in the application of rules invites abuse and corruption.\u00a0 Inflexible application produces unintended consequences and invites efforts to game the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/new-medicare-law-to-notify-patients-of-loophole-in-nursing-home-coverage.html?smid=go-share\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/new-medicare-law-to-notify-patients-of-loophole-in-nursing-home-coverage.html?smid=go-share<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large and possibly calamitous financial hole for the aged and infirm at the intersection of two metrics tied tightly to incentives.\u00a0 \u00a0 Flexibility and discretion in the application of rules invites abuse and corruption.\u00a0 Inflexible application produces unintended consequences and invites efforts to game the rules. \u00a0 http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/new-medicare-law-to-notify-patients-of-loophole-in-nursing-home-coverage.html?smid=go-share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-perils-of-metrics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}