{"id":3554,"date":"2012-10-09T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2012-10-09T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T00:01:07","slug":"protecting-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama campaign is running this ad in several swing states\u00a0highlighting Romney&#8217;s plans to gut Medicaid:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qq11CWbd56g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It would be nice if the ad featured some kids and adults with disabilities, but I get that most voters probably know or knew an elderly person living in a nursing home. The prospect of Grandma being thrown out on the street is more likely to provoke a reaction than the neighbor kid with cerebral palsy losing his attendant services. I&#8217;m just glad to see that the future of Medicaid is finally getting some attention as a campaign issue. Medicaid, more than any other major entitlement program, is vulnerable to devastating cuts if Republicans win the White House and Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama campaign is running this ad in several swing states\u00a0highlighting Romney&#8217;s plans to gut Medicaid: It would be nice if the ad featured some kids and adults with disabilities, but I get that most voters probably know or knew an elderly person living in a nursing home. The prospect of Grandma being thrown out <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3554' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-politics","category-25-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3555,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}