{"id":23682,"date":"2013-02-09T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=28bdfc88d3fd667fe8de6a41757050c0"},"modified":"2013-02-09T21:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T21:30:53","slug":"clearing-the-fog-with-steven-hill-and-dr-andy-coates-on-deficit-dont-cut-social-security-and-medicare-expand-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2013\/02\/09\/clearing-the-fog-with-steven-hill-and-dr-andy-coates-on-deficit-dont-cut-social-security-and-medicare-expand-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG with Steven Hill and Dr. Andy Coates on Deficit: Don&#8217;t Cut Social Security and Medicare, Expand Them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While corporate media talks about the deficit and cutting Social Security and Medicare, we turn the argument for cuts on its head. We focus on growing poverty among seniors and popular solutions. Instead of cutting social insurances, our guests call for expanding and improving them. Steven Hill (<a class=\"mx-link\" href=\"http:\/\/steven-hill.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow external\"  style=\"outline: 0px; text-decoration: initial; cursor: pointer; color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\">Steven-Hill.com<\/a>) wrote in The Atlantic that Social Security is the most stable pension plan in today's economy and that there are ways to double Social Security benefits. This would bring more seniors to a comfortable level of retirement and would stabilize our economy through increased spending. Dr. Andy Coates, the current president of Physicians for a National Health Program (<a class=\"mx-link\" href=\"http:\/\/pnhp.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow external\"  style=\"outline: 0px; text-decoration: initial; cursor: pointer; color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\">PNHP.org<\/a>), discusses improving and expanding Medicare to everyone as a way to address both the health care and economic crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-with-steven-hill-and-dr-andy-coates-on-deficit-don-t-cut-social-security-and-medicare-expand-them\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While corporate media talks about the deficit and cutting Social Security and Medicare, we turn the argument for cuts on its head. We focus on growing poverty among seniors and popular solutions. Instead of cutting social insurances, our guests call fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23683,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions\/23683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}