{"id":29319,"date":"2023-01-22T00:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=29319"},"modified":"2023-01-22T00:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T00:44:52","slug":"as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=29319","title":{"rendered":"As US Bumps Against Debt Ceiling, Medicare Becomes a Bargaining Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debt ceiling crisis facing Washington puts Medicare and other popular entitlement programs squarely on the negotiating table this year as newly empowered Republicans demand spending cuts. Meanwhile, as more Americans than ever have health insurance, the nation\u2019s health care workforce is straining under the load&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/podcast\/podcast-khn-what-the-health-280-debt-ceiling-medicare-january-19-2022\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debt ceiling crisis facing Washington puts Medicare and other popular entitlement programs squarely on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/29319-as-us-bumps-against-debt-ceiling-medicare-becomes-a-bargaining-chip-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}