{"id":6011,"date":"2010-07-07T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6011"},"modified":"2010-07-07T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T19:32:09","slug":"the-new-face-of-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6011\/the-new-face-of-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Face of Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6006\/health-care-rationing-proponent-to-get-recess-appointment\/\" target=\"_blank\">we mentioned earlier today<\/a>, Dr. Donald Berwick has received a recess appointment from President Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. You&#8217;ll hear a lot in the next few days from the conservative press about Berwick&#8217;s radical affection for rationing and his distaste for the free market system. Lest you think any of it hyperbolic, let the man tell you for himself:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/04_BTztNFCI&amp;feature\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/04_BTztNFCI&amp;feature\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned earlier today, Dr. Donald Berwick has received a recess appointment from President Obama to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. You&#8217;ll hear a lot in the next few days from the conservative press about Berwick&#8217;s radical affection for rationing and his distaste for the free market system. Lest you think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1514,12,232,235,14,50],"class_list":["post-6011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dr-donald-berwick","tag-health-care","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-president-obama","tag-rationing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6011\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}