{"id":26,"date":"2011-06-09T05:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billsnotes.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-06-09T05:45:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:45:02","slug":"%e2%80%9cas-we-know-it%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAS WE KNOW IT\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAS WE KNOW IT\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those that are trying to scare everybody about changing Medicare with phrases such as \u201cIt will destroy\/devastate\/eliminate\/or crush Medicare as we know it\u201d keep couching such threats of immediate doom with the phrase \u201cas we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We need to, we must, end Medicare <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cas we know it<\/span>\u201d because we know it is going bankrupt as \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">as we know it<\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 If we don\u2019t change it there will not be a Medicare.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Government Medicare<\/em><\/strong> must be changed to <strong><em>Your Medicare<\/em><\/strong>; a program that you and your doctor control \u2013 not the government, especially not with the Independent Payment Advisory Board that will make your personal medical decisions based on generalized government costs and statistical probabilities from mass studies.\u00a0 Just as in England, criteria such as your \u201cvalue to society\u201d in comparison to \u201csocieties cost to extend your life and\/or the quality of your life\u201d will be used to decide if you get the care you need.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we have coming now under Obama Scare. \u00a0\u00a0Examples from the experiences and results in other countries using this system prove that the results will be rationed medical care and medications.\u00a0 There will also be even faster increases in costs and higher hidden taxes to indirectly fund the socialist system that will leave us with a stagnant economy (unless the laws of economics and human nature are repealed).<\/p>\n<p>bill@billsnotes.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAS WE KNOW IT\u201d Those that are trying to scare everybody about changing Medicare with phrases such as \u201cIt will destroy\/devastate\/eliminate\/or crush Medicare as we know it\u201d keep couching such threats of immediate doom with the phrase \u201cas we know it.\u201d We need to, we must, end Medicare \u201cas we know it\u201d because we know&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/?p=26\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cAS WE KNOW IT\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billsnotes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}