{"id":267638,"date":"2021-08-08T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=190188"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T16:06:46","slug":"democrats-propose-medicare-for-a-few-more-instead-of-demanding-medicare-for-all-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/08\/democrats-propose-medicare-for-a-few-more-instead-of-demanding-medicare-for-all-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Propose Medicare For A Few More Instead Of Demanding Medicare For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health care activists were uniformly disappointed, albeit not surprised, when President Joe Biden, in initially proposing the American Families Plan, failed to include in the legislation his major campaign promise to prioritize expanding Medicare. Instead of fighting for real health care reform, the House and Senate wrote letters respectfully requesting the administration to tweak the plan around the edges: lower the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 60; decrease prescription drug costs; place an out-of-pocket cap on health care costs; and expand coverage to include dental, vision and hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/democrats-propose-medicare-for-a-few-more-instead-of-demanding-medicare-for-all\/\">Democrats Propose Medicare For A Few More Instead Of Demanding Medicare For All<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/democrats-propose-medicare-for-a-few-more-instead-of-demanding-medicare-for-all\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care activists were uniformly disappointed, albeit not surprised, when President Joe Biden, in initially proposing the American Families Plan, failed to include in the legislation his major campaign promise to prioritize expanding Medicare. Inst&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5725,3493,5718],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267638"}],"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\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267659,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267638\/revisions\/267659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}