{"id":20900,"date":"2023-02-17T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20900"},"modified":"2023-02-17T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:46:08","slug":"the-radical-proposal-to-let-medicare-and-social-security-lapse-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20900","title":{"rendered":"The radical proposal to let Medicare and Social Security lapse, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Dylan Scott on February 16, 2023 for Vox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Rick Scott wants every government program \u2014 even entitlements \u2014 to expire after 5 years unless Congress approves them again. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2023\/2\/16\/23598343\/social-security-medicare-sunset-joe-biden-rick-scott\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"85\" class=\"wp-image-8433\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dylan Scott on February 16, 2023 for Vox Sen. Rick Scott wants every government program \u2014 even entitlements \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,6],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-20900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20901,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20900\/revisions\/20901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}