{"id":175619,"date":"2021-01-08T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/08\/breaking-things-on-the-way-out\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:05:00","slug":"breaking-things-on-the-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/08\/breaking-things-on-the-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Things on the Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-administration-allows-tennessee-to-fund-medicaid-with-modified-block-grant-11610130001\">authorized Tennessee to have its Medicaid funded through block grants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Block grants is how Bill Clinton&#8217;s evil Welfare &#8220;Reform&#8221; worked, and the states took the money and spent it on things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/moneybox\/2016\/06\/_welfare_money_often_isn_t_spent_on_welfare.html\">romance lessions<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration wants to take a sledge hammer to Medicaid, and indirectly Obamacare, because they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration just authorized Tennessee to have its Medicaid funded through block grants. Block grants is how Bill Clinton&#8217;s evil Welfare &#8220;Reform&#8221; worked, and the states took the money and spent it on things like romance lessions.&nbsp; The Trump administration wants to take a sledge hammer to Medicaid, and indirectly Obamacare, because they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,463,387,460,454],"class_list":["post-175619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-healthcare","tag-hypocrisy","tag-public-health","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}