{"id":537129,"date":"2026-03-15T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537129\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:36:07","slug":"82-million-americans-have-cut-back-on-essentials-to-afford-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537129\/","title":{"rendered":"82 million Americans have cut back on essentials to afford health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GRRJZ4AWIZEMVGCST3N6T75RRE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">More than three decades ago, Tupac Shakur rapped about a rain that would \u201cnever let up.\u201d For millions of Americans in 2026, the rain has become a torrential downpour.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RLH4LGYVP5DYBB3EZ7ZNXIIOYQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration has led us into a war in Iran, and the munitions used in just the first two days of the conflict alone cost taxpayers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/03\/09\/iran-war-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$5.6 billion.<\/a> That\u2019s a staggering amount when juxtaposed against legislation passed last year that makes it harder for families to get food assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than three decades ago, Tupac Shakur rapped about a rain that would \u201cnever let up.\u201d For millions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-537129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}