{"id":2450,"date":"2009-12-03T18:27:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T23:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2009-12-03T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T23:32:10","slug":"attention-seniors-58-senate-democrats-just-voted-to-cut-medicare-by-a-half-trillion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2450\/attention-seniors-58-senate-democrats-just-voted-to-cut-medicare-by-a-half-trillion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Seniors:  58 Senate Democrats Just Voted to Cut Medicare By a Half Trillion Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate this afternoon voted 42-58 to reject an amendment, sponsored\u00a0by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), that would have sent the Senate health care \u201creform\u201d bill back to the chamber&#8217;s Finance Committee with instructions to strip out nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts.\u00a0 In other words, 58 Senate Democrats reaffirmed their desire to cut Medicare by nearly a half trillion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u00a0Jim Webb and Ben Nelson voted with all Senate Republicans in favor of the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said <a href=\"http:\/\/mcconnell.senate.gov\/record.cfm?id=320422&amp;start=1\" target=\"_blank\">in a statement<\/a> sent out immediately following the vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If anyone had any question about the Democrat plan to use Medicare as a piggy-bank to fund their new government programs, those doubts are now gone. 58 Democrats just voted to reject a common-sense proposal to protect senior\u2019s health care from a half-trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare.\u00a0 Only in Washington would anyone have the nerve to claim that such drastic cuts won\u2019t harm the very program millions of seniors have paid into for years and now rely on.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate this afternoon voted 42-58 to reject an amendment, sponsored\u00a0by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), that would have sent the Senate health care \u201creform\u201d bill back to the chamber&#8217;s Finance Committee with instructions to strip out nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts.\u00a0 In other words, 58 Senate Democrats reaffirmed their desire to cut Medicare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,235],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}