{"id":134812,"date":"2017-09-21T17:31:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134812"},"modified":"2017-09-21T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T00:31:59","slug":"aarp-rips-graham-cassidy-repeal-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/aarp-rips-graham-cassidy-repeal-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"The AARP rips the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, hey, I&#8217;m sure those old people who on average would be spending $16K a year more on medical insurance probably have <i>tons<\/i> of money buried under the oak tree in the back yard, right?<\/p>\n<p>Or, they could just die and not drain the federal and state coffers. That would provide plenty of money for more tax cuts, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/351703-aarp-older-americans-to-pay-16k-more-under-gop-obamacare-repeal\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/IWOyZNpTH61ByphELq6mP40DVaEYVSP0h4qWJiAqCKlcHOw-EJriUrg-tWzkk_y_nfIrSfYlZZeURJ7LwsZ1_r0S4YbzFx9hDHGqKUu3gs-heRtDNHdM_-XEbivl9_GcV6z0Zw3-rQ9llKDm=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/351703-aarp-older-americans-to-pay-16k-more-under-gop-obamacare-repeal\">AARP: Older Americans to pay $16K more under GOP ObamaCare repeal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA new<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/R7BCkCQVwVf\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, hey, I&#8217;m sure those old people who on average would be spending $16K a year more on medical insurance probably have tons of money buried under the oak tree in the back yard, right? Or, they could just die and not drain the federal and state coffers. That would provide plenty of money for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/aarp-rips-graham-cassidy-repeal-bill.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The AARP rips the Graham-Cassidy repeal bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,134,358,376],"tags":[1171,1223,1045],"class_list":["post-134812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-health-care","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-aca","tag-elderly","tag-repealandreplace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/unnamed-28.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15449,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/okay-i-have-some-gray-but-not-that-much.html","url_meta":{"origin":134812,"position":0},"title":"Okay, I have some gray, but not that much!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Jul-09 4:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm getting membership offers in the mail from the freaking AARP? 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