{"id":1677,"date":"2017-08-05T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:30:58","slug":"lbj-launches-medicare-you-cant-treat-grandma-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/lbj-launches-medicare-you-cant-treat-grandma-this-way\/","title":{"rendered":"LBJ Launches Medicare: \u2018You Can\u2019t Treat Grandma This Way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LBJ Launches Medicare: \u2018You Can\u2019t Treat Grandma This Way\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes, our health system is broken, but broken systems can be fixed \u2014 not easily, but they can be fixed.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/story\/lbj-launches-medicare-cant-treat-grandma-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">By Bill Moyers <\/a>| July 30, 2017 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Watching the craziness in the Senate this week, as Mitch McConnell and the GOP\u2019s zealots drove their clown car into a brick wall and yet another effort to take away health care coverage from millions crashed and burned, I thought back to a different turn of events.<\/p>\n<p>It was 52 years ago this Sunday \u2014 July 30, 1965. Two American presidents celebrated the birth of Medicare, the most significant advance toward national health insurance in America\u2019s history.   <\/p>\n<p>I was a White House assistant at the time, working for President Lyndon B. Johnson as he coaxed, cajoled, badgered, buttonholed and maneuvered Congress into enacting Medicare for the aging and Medicaid to help low-income people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LBJ Launches Medicare: \u2018You Can\u2019t Treat Grandma This Way\u2019 Yes, our health system is broken, but broken systems can be fixed \u2014 not easily, but they can be fixed. By Bill Moyers | July 30, 2017 Watching the craziness in the Senate this week, as Mitch McConnell and the GOP\u2019s zealots drove their clown car &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/05\/lbj-launches-medicare-you-cant-treat-grandma-this-way\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[86,261,661,978,1014,1068,1069,1461,1578],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-1677","7":"format-standard","8":"category-politics","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-86","11":"post_tag-bill-moyers","12":"post_tag-fdr","13":"post_tag-lbj","14":"post_tag-lyndon-johnson","15":"post_tag-medicaid","16":"post_tag-medicare","17":"post_tag-roosevelt","18":"post_tag-social-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}