{"id":195138,"date":"2008-07-27T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/not-a-bug-a-feature\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T22:17:00","slug":"not-a-bug-a-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/not-a-bug-a-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Bug, a Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/washingtondc\/la-na-medicare25-2008jul25,0,1950084.story\">creation of Medicare Part D by the Republican congress has resulted in a 30% increase in payments for drugs<\/a> as compared to Medicaid, as was previously done.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hastening the financial collapse of a hated by Republicans, but <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> popular government program, medicare?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting money to big pharma which donates to the &#8216;Phants?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the creation of Medicare Part D by the Republican congress has resulted in a 30% increase in payments for drugs as compared to Medicaid, as was previously done. Let&#8217;s see: Hastening the financial collapse of a hated by Republicans, but very popular government program, medicare? Check. Getting money to big pharma &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1010,1046,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-bureaucracy","category-healthcare","category-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195138"}],"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=195138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}