{"id":8724,"date":"2012-12-10T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2012-12-10T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:47:55","slug":"medicare-eligibility-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/12\/10\/medicare-eligibility-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Mishigas (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2012\/12\/10\/the-five-keys-to-a-fiscal-cliff-deal\/\">&#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; negotiations,<\/a>  Republicans are irrationally demanding a hike in the Medicare eligibility age &#8212; what Nancy Pelosi refers to as  \u201ca trophy that the Republicans want.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As Ezra Klein explains, this would not save money or help solve the health care cost problem, and it would hurt lots of people. Unfortunately, Republicans seem to favor symbolism over substance, and raising the Medicare eligibility age would be &#8220;a signal that they won something big on entitlements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Medicare Mishigas (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>GOPers want change that ain&#8217;t sage:<br \/>\nRaise the Medicare-el&#8217;gible age.<br \/>\nThis does harm &#8212; won&#8217;t address<br \/>\nThe health care cost mess:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the fruit of entitlements-rage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;fiscal cliff&#8221; negotiations, Republicans are irrationally demanding a hike in the Medicare eligibility age &#8212; what Nancy Pelosi refers to as \u201ca trophy that the Republicans want.\u201d As Ezra Klein explains, this would not save money or help solve the health care cost problem, and it would hurt lots of people. Unfortunately, Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,114,20,52,11,1608,1193,6,7,3,9,45],"tags":[1558,1540,2187,396,1574,2763,375,2223,2224,845,2848,483,702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}