{"id":23374,"date":"2021-10-23T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23374"},"modified":"2021-10-23T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T16:46:34","slug":"seniors-get-screwed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23374","title":{"rendered":"Seniors get screwed again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as the details become available on the bills wending there way through congress, one thing is clear&#8230;seniors get screwed again. Where the initial bill started out with dental, vision, and hearing being added to Medicare coverage&#8230;the version of the bill that is going to pass has none of those in it&#8230;they may include an 800 dollar &#8220;voucher&#8221; to cover some dental work but I think they will probably sacrifice that to Manchin and Sinema since they are so in the pocket of big business that don&#8217;t want anything good for the people of the country if they can&#8217;t make a profit from it. They have no problem giving the Pentagon 46 billion dollars they don&#8217;t even want, but they can&#8217;t get seniors out of dental pain or pay for community college for our kids&#8230;.this is such a slap in the face for everyone on Medicare and I hope the dems will use the repub opposition to everything in this bill to beat them over the head with it in 2022&#8230;if two fricking repubs would have negotiated in good faith, we could have taken care of a wide swath of the country and made their lives better&#8230;made my life better&#8230;now, I can afford to spend a couple of thousand on the dental work I need, but the majority of seniors can&#8217;t and it is just sick to make them suffer to avoid taxing the rich just a tiny little bit&#8230;god, I hate these people&#8230;.geez&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as the details become available on the bills wending there way through congress, one thing is clear&#8230;seniors get screwed again. Where the initial bill started out with dental, vision, and hearing being added to Medicare coverage&#8230;the version of the bill that is going to pass has none of those in it&#8230;they may include an 800 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seniors get screwed again&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3055],"class_list":["post-23374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-expanding-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23375,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23374\/revisions\/23375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}