{"id":10987,"date":"2013-08-31T00:27:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2013-08-31T00:27:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T07:27:13","slug":"demint-demands-republicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/demint-demands-republicare\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Demands RepubliCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has a plan for you\u2019re health care.  I call it RepubliCare.  It has a built in death benefit for no extra charge, and here\u2019s how it works.  Either you pay, or you die.  To establish RepubliCare, they have to take away your ObamaCare.  If they can, the next step is to tale away Medicare and Medicaid too, as proclaimed by former Senator, now Fuhrer of the Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"31JimDemint\"Heritage Foundation president and former Senator Jim DeMint suggested to a town hall audience in Wilmington, Delaware Thursday that health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid are \u201cun-American\u201d and built on the principles of \u201csocialism and collectivism.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot think of anything that\u2019s more un-American than national government-run health care,\u201d DeMint said. \u201cThose who believe in those principles of socialism and collectivism we\u2019ve seen over the centuries, they see as their holy grail taking control of the health care system.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a link to the video of DeMint\u2019s speech<\/a>, if you have a generous supply og barf bags handy.  Fore some reason I feel too charitable today to subject you to 56 minutes of DeMint.<\/font><\/p>\n

Of course, this is nothing new.  Republicans have been opposed to Medicare since before it passed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party has a plan for you\u2019re health care.  I call it RepubliCare.  It has a built in death benefit for no extra charge, and here\u2019s how it works.  Either you pay, or you die.  To establish RepubliCare, they have to take away your ObamaCare.  If they can, the next step is to tale […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}