{"id":13719,"date":"2019-08-01T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13719"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:02:26","slug":"is-it-medicare-for-all-or-universal-public-health-insurance-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13719","title":{"rendered":"Is it Medicare for All or Universal Public Health Insurance Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Howard Gleckman\u2019s column for Forbes, he is calling for the Democratic presidential hopefuls to stop calling it: \u201cMedicare for All\u201d since it has nothing to do with Medicare; call it something else. He states what the presidential hopefuls are proposing is a universal public health insurance program (UPIP), which is not the same as Medicare for All.\u00a0 He continues to point out the five-way Sen. Sanders plan is different from Medicare. Read his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/howardgleckman\/2019\/07\/31\/medicare-for-all-has-nothing-to-do-with-medicare-call-it-something-else\/#3ed2dc366c5c\">column here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">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.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Howard Gleckman\u2019s column for Forbes, he is calling for the Democratic presidential hopefuls to stop calling it: \u201cMedicare for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-healthcare-issues","category-health-care-redesign","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719","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=13719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13720,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions\/13720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}