{"id":2176,"date":"2020-02-09T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2020-02-09T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:56:00","slug":"the-viral-video-of-mike-pence-being-grilled-by-an-er-doctor-about-medicaid-cuts-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"The viral video of Mike Pence being grilled by an ER doctor about Medicaid cuts, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;\u201cCutting Medicaid \u2014 yeah,\u201d Davidson said. \u201cThe head of CMS [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] announced the plan to let states file for waivers so they could get block grants, so that would essentially cut the amount of money going to states. So that would cut federal Medicaid funding.&#8221;&#8221;<br>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;I think it comes down to that for the people I take care of all the time,\u201d responded Davidson. \u201cPeople I see in the emergency department that can\u2019t get primary care doctors, [but] once they got Medicaid they could get primary care doctors. They stay out of the ER, they actually work more, they actually contributed to our community more.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow, if you tell those people, \u2018Sorry, you don\u2019t get your health care\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s going to be a real negative in their lives,\u201d Davidson continued.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/31\/21116673\/mike-pence-medicaid-cuts-viral-video-dr-rob-davidson\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/31\/21116673\/mike-pence-medicaid-cuts-viral-video-dr-rob-davidson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cCutting Medicaid \u2014 yeah,\u201d Davidson said. \u201cThe head of CMS [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] announced the plan to let states file for waivers so they could get block grants, so that would essentially cut the amount of money going to states. So that would cut federal Medicaid funding.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;I think it comes down to that for the people I take care of all the time,\u201d responded Davidson. \u201cPeople I see in the emergency department that can\u2019t get primary care doctors, [but] once they got Medicaid they could get primary care doctors. They stay out of the ER, they actually work more, they actually contributed to our community more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, if you tell those people, \u2018Sorry, you don\u2019t get your health care\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s going to be a real negative in their lives,\u201d Davidson continued.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[424,73,341,50],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-doctor","tag-healthcare","tag-medicaid","tag-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}