{"id":3354,"date":"2020-02-13T05:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T05:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/medicare-for-all\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T05:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T05:44:40","slug":"medicare-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/medicare-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare for All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Some of the Democrat candidates for president are calling for Medicare for all, in those terms. The call makes no sense. Medicare is a U. S. government program for American <em>citizens<\/em> 65 years of age and older. (There are minor exceptions that don&#39;t affect my main point.) Now even Democrats know that not every citizen is 65 or older. So the call makes no sense for that reason alone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If the Dem dogs weren&#39;t such lying &quot;pony soldiers&quot; to use Joe Biden&#39;s bizarre phrase, if they were intel<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">lectually honest, then they would admit to be calling for universal health care, where &#39;universal&#39; covers citizens and illegal aliens. The mendacious bunch would also own up to wanting a single-payer system, one that outlaws private health insurance. Outlawing private insurers such as Blue Cross\/ Blue Shield, Aetna, etc., would do away with the supplemental plans now available to part B Medicare recipients.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Next Lie: &quot;If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.&quot; (Barack Obama)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the Democrat candidates for president are calling for Medicare for all, in those terms. The call makes no sense. Medicare is a U. S. government program for American citizens 65 years of age and older. (There are minor exceptions that don&#39;t affect my main point.) Now even Democrats know that not every citizen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/medicare-for-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medicare for All?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,34,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit","category-health-and-fitness","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}