{"id":20957,"date":"2023-03-06T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20957"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:12:39","slug":"social-security-medicare-clash-comes-down-to-what-constitutes-a-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20957","title":{"rendered":"Social Security, Medicare clash comes down to what constitutes a \u2018cut\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Mike Lillis for The Hill on 3\/6\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coming battles over the nation\u2019s safety-net programs are beginning with an early clash over a thorny question of semantics: What constitutes a cut? <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3883429-social-security-medicare-clash-comes-down-to-what-constitutes-a-cut\/\">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 Mike Lillis for The Hill on 3\/6\/2023 The coming battles over the nation\u2019s safety-net programs are beginning with an<\/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":[61,94,499],"class_list":["post-20957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957","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=20957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20958,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20957\/revisions\/20958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}