{"id":11795,"date":"2018-10-22T09:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2018-10-22T09:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:27:55","slug":"politicians-hop-aboard-medicare-for-all-train-destination-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11795","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Hop Aboard \u2018Medicare-For-All\u2019 Train, Destination Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elizabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>After decades in the political wilderness, \u201cMedicare-for-all\u201d and single-payer health care are suddenly popular. The words appear in political advertisements and are cheered at campaign rallies \u2014 even in deep-red states. They are promoted by a growing number of high-profile Democratic candidates, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke in Texas. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/2018-midterms-medicare-for-all-slogan-health-care-policy\/\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elizabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) After decades in the political wilderness, \u201cMedicare-for-all\u201d and single-payer health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-healthcare-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11796,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions\/11796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}