{"id":1141,"date":"2008-09-29T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T13:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2008-09-28T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:45:21","slug":"fun-fact-about-john-mccain-12-he-wants-to-tax-your-health-care-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact About John McCain #12: He Wants to Tax Your Health Care Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

McCain wants to tax my heath care benefits!<\/p>\n

Actually true<\/strong><\/a>. But wait, there’s more. As people won’t be able to afford individual health insurance plans…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCain wants to open “up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking…”<\/p>\n

An actual quote<\/strong><\/a> [PDF]. So – McCain wants to tax my health care benefits provided by my employer – so that my employer will eventually force me to get health care on my own – which will be easier to get because he will be deregulating the health insurance market and removing consumer protections that exist on the state-level – just like we did with banking in the past 10 years. This sounds like a brilliant idea!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

McCain wants to tax my heath care benefits! Actually true. But wait, there’s more. As people won’t be able to afford individual health insurance plans… McCain wants to open “up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking…” An actual quote [PDF]. So – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,544,22,45,4],"tags":[806,621,698],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-issues","category-economics","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-politics","tag-deregulation","tag-health-care","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ip","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}