{"id":156,"date":"2015-07-25T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-07-25T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:06:38","slug":"bush-fires-back-over-medicare-comments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Bush fires back over Medicare comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0www.bulletinleader.com)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an actuarially unsound health care system\u201d, <b>Bush<\/b> told the crowd at a town hall in New Hampshire, adding that \u201c$50 trillion dollars of debt has been accrued and if <em>we<\/em> do nothing, that\u2019s the burden that we\u2019re going to place on <i>your<\/i> children and grandchildren\u201d.\u00a0<b>Republican<\/b> <strong>presidential<\/strong> candidate Jeb Bush <i>said<\/i> Wednesday that we ought to phase out Medicare, the federal program that provides health insurance to Americans once they\u2019re 65.\u00a0Also campaigning in Iowa in August will be Bush\u2019s son, <b>Jeb <em>Bush<\/em><\/b> Jr., <i>who<\/i> will attend a campaign office opening in West Des Moines on Aug. 8 and the Adel Sweet Corn Festival later that same day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulletinleader.com\/bush-fires-back-over-medicare-comments\/4465\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211;\u00a0www.bulletinleader.com) \u201cIt\u2019s an actuarially unsound health care system\u201d, Bush told the crowd at a town hall in New Hampshire,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}