{"id":618863,"date":"2026-09-09T02:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618863\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:54:07","slug":"the-republican-origins-of-medicare-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618863\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican origins of Medicare for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YJFKBJVVFRFSZBIDS55XJE746A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cMedicare for All\u201d has once again become a rallying cry for progressives on the 2026 midterms campaign trail. Picking up on a theme that Sen. Bernie Sanders elevated in Democratic politics during his 2016 primary run, the idea that Medicare\u2014a program that provides hospital and physician insurance to elderly Americans should be expanded to cover everyone has considerable popular appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMedicare for All\u201d has once again become a rallying cry for progressives on the 2026 midterms campaign trail.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-618863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}