{"id":5861,"date":"2010-02-23T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2010-02-23T07:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:55:43","slug":"maybe_health_care_reform_isnt_such_a_bad_idea_after_all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/maybe_health_care_reform_isnt_such_a_bad_idea_after_all.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Health Care Reform Isn&#8217;t Such A Bad Idea After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which looks worse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IjgzDAIpGUM\">Eli pimping plagued Toyota cars<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/eli_blitzed_over_hosp_deal_01kc60nVJqYFkUbfOlTZVN\">Eli bilking St. Vincent&#8217;s as it nears bankruptcy<\/a>? Tough call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Giant quarterback Eli Manning got a lousy reception yesterday for a secret marketing deal with cash-strapped St. Vincent&#8217;s Medical Center that paid him at least $500,000 over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>After inquiries by The Post Sunday, Manning and the Greenwich Village hospital said they had canceled a $1 million pact that would have paid him $200,000 a year through 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But as late as last December, Manning&#8217;s agent requested a $125,000 payment from St. Vincent&#8217;s that was months overdue, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The tardy check was finally sent to Manning&#8217;s firm, PWL Inc.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/villages\/west\/stvincentshospital\/index.htm\">St. Vincent&#8217;s Hospital Manhattan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which looks worse, Eli pimping plagued Toyota cars or Eli bilking St. Vincent&#8217;s as it nears bankruptcy? Tough call: Giant quarterback Eli Manning got a lousy reception yesterday for a secret marketing deal with cash-strapped St. Vincent&#8217;s Medical Center that paid him at least $500,000 over the last three years. After inquiries by The Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}