{"id":277,"date":"2015-08-03T20:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=277"},"modified":"2015-08-03T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:14:17","slug":"how-republicans-should-and-shouldnt-talk-about-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"How Republicans Should (And Shouldn&#8217;t) Talk About Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\">John C. Goodman, Forbes Contributor)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When the Republican presidential candidates meet to debate on Thursday there is one topic that can make them or break them in 2016: Medicare.\u00a0Almost since the program\u2019s inception, Democrats have accused Republicans of wanting to destroy it or privatize it or defund it. When it comes to Medicare, it seems, Republicans are invariably on the defensive. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johngoodman\/2015\/08\/03\/how-republicans-should-and-shouldnt-talk-about-medicare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0John C. Goodman, Forbes Contributor)\u00a0 When the Republican presidential candidates meet to debate on Thursday there is one topic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}