{"id":5111,"date":"2012-08-27T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:13:22","slug":"eugene-robinson-republicans-steal-medicare-from-the-democrats-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/eugene-robinson-republicans-steal-medicare-from-the-democrats-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-republicans-steal-medicare-from-the-democrats\/2012\/08\/27\/6c7a06b2-f073-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html\">Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Medicare has fundamentally transformed the experience of aging in this country by providing a guarantee of health care.<\/p>\n<p>[I]t was Democrats who conceived of Medicare, passed it into law and kept it viable all these years. It was Republicans who denounced the program as \u201csocialized medicine\u201d \u2014 and who now want to replace Medicare\u2019s guarantee with a system of vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans may tell themselves that the GOP is the party of Medicare. But I doubt seniors will be convinced. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eugene-robinson-republicans-steal-medicare-from-the-democrats\/2012\/08\/27\/6c7a06b2-f073-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html\">Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats &#8211; The Washington Post Medicare has fundamentally transformed the experience of aging in this country by providing a guarantee of health care. [I]t was Democrats who conceived of Medicare, passed it into law and kept it viable all these years. It was Republicans who denounced the program &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/eugene-robinson-republicans-steal-medicare-from-the-democrats-the-washington-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats &#8211; The Washington Post<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}