{"id":1807,"date":"2009-12-13T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/abolish-medicare-says-glenn-beck\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:42:18","slug":"abolish-medicare-says-glenn-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/abolish-medicare-says-glenn-beck.php","title":{"rendered":"Abolish Medicare says Glenn Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarians have been calling for abolishment of Medicare and all government-run health care for decades.  Now, arguably America's most well-known and popular libertarian broadcaster has joined the call.  Beck made the remarks on his radio show the other day.  <\/p><p>Transcript from the leftist blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/\">Think Progress<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>CO-HOST: This is unbelievable, because the whole thing with the public option, is we were saying this is going to be like Medicare, they just want to make a big &mdash; make another Medicare program. And then they said no, public option is just competition.<\/p><p>BECK: And, wait wait wait. And I also said why don&rsquo;t you just abolish Medicare, because it&rsquo;s so wildly corrupt and out of control. It&rsquo;s so inefficient, it is so bad and there&rsquo;s $47 billion in suspected wrong payments, okay, in Medicare. So what are they saying &mdash; now remember, what we&rsquo;re going to do &mdash; the compromise is we&rsquo;re going to expand Medicare. That way there won&rsquo;t be a public option, we&rsquo;ll just &mdash; which doesn&rsquo;t make any sense &mdash; we&rsquo;re going to expand Medicare.<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/64ed1_7828681836623105417-3085430698901372276?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarians have been calling for abolishment of Medicare and all government-run health care for decades. Now, arguably America's most well-known and popular libertarian broadcaster has joined the call. Beck made the remarks on his radio show the other day. Transcript &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/abolish-medicare-says-glenn-beck.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}