{"id":5398,"date":"2020-06-17T04:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T08:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2020-06-17T04:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T08:43:57","slug":"weve-always-had-the-money-for-medicare-for-all-weve-just-given-it-to-corporations-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5398","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Always Had the Money for Medicare for All \u2014 We\u2019ve Just Given It to Corporations Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Since 2008, the US has spent $20\u201335 trillion on corporate bailouts. It\u2019s about the same \u201cunaffordable\u201d amount that Medicare for All has been projected to cost \u2014 used for lining corporate pockets instead of providing health care to people who need it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2020\/06\/medicare-for-all-coronavirus-health-care-taxes-government-spending\">We\u2019ve Always Had the Money for Medicare for All \u2014 We\u2019ve Just Given It to Corporations Instead<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2008, the US has spent $20\u201335 trillion on corporate bailouts. It\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[169,18,48,57,72],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-covid-19","tag-economics","tag-health","tag-usa","tag-usa-usa-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}