{"id":5750,"date":"2014-03-02T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2014-03-02T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:26:43","slug":"how-the-medical-establishment-got-the-treasurys-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5750","title":{"rendered":"How the Medical Establishment Got the Treasury\u2019s Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/blogs\/economix\/2014\/02\/28\/how-the-medical-establishment-got-the-treasurys-keys\/?smid=tw-share&#038;\">Uwe E. Reinhardt<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About half a century ago, organized medicine and the hospital industry in this country struck a deal with Congress that in retrospect seems as audacious as it seems incredible: Congress was asked to surrender to these industries the keys to the United States Treasury.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;In return, the industries would allow Congress to pass a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, described as \u201can act to provide a hospital insurance program for the aged under the Social Security Act with a supplementary health benefits program and an expanded program of medical assistance, to increase benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance System, to improve the Federal-State public assistance programs, and for other purposes.\u201d We have come to know it as Medicare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uwe E. Reinhardt: About half a century ago, organized medicine and the hospital industry in this country struck a deal with Congress that in retrospect seems as audacious as it seems incredible: Congress was asked to surrender to these industries the keys to the United States Treasury.&nbsp;&nbsp;In return, the industries would allow Congress to pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}