{"id":1269,"date":"2009-10-15T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-10-15T13:05:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:05:27","slug":"the_fight_over_who_should_pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"The Fight Over Who Should Pay For &#8220;Free&#8221; Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/news\/politics-elections\/2009\/10\/14\/the_influence_game_health_cry_is_tax_them,_not_us?page=full&amp;comments=true\">Townhall.com<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article yesterday on the fight over who will actually pay for the &#8216;free&#8217; healthcare the government is promising all of us.&nbsp; Congress is estimating the cost of healthcare at approximately $900 billion over ten years.&nbsp; Labor unions, special interest groups, and insurance companies are all lobbying hard to make sure they are not the ones who have to pay for the new program.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The unions do not want their &#8216;Cadillac&#8217; healthcare plans taxed to pay for the program.&nbsp; The insurance companies do not want the government running their businesses and interfering with their business practices.&nbsp; The elderly are protesting the proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage program.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It seems as if even people who have been convinced that nationalized healthcare is a good idea are not interested in paying for it.&nbsp; I myself&nbsp;would be willing to support healthcare reform as soon as Congress tries it on themselves for a year or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com&nbsp;posted an article yesterday on the fight over who will actually pay for the &#8216;free&#8217; healthcare the government is promising all of us.&nbsp; Congress is estimating the cost of healthcare at approximately $900 billion over ten years.&nbsp; Labor unions, special &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}