{"id":4133,"date":"2020-08-18T23:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T06:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2020-08-18T23:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T06:24:05","slug":"medicare-for-all-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/2020\/08\/18\/medicare-for-all-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare for All Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>August 22, 2020 was a National Day of Action for Medicare for All. The Portland Raging Grannies were honored to show up and amplify this important message.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Our health care system fails to provide quality care to every US resident and wastes hundreds of billions of dollars a year in unnecessary administrative costs.\u00a0The COVID-19 pandemic has only further highlighted the need to completely overhaul US health care.\u00a0A Medicare for All single-payer system would expand and improve the cost-effective and administratively efficient Medicare program to finance comprehensive, high-quality health care for everybody in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"57d6c0d\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Waving signs for anyone who will see.\" href=\"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medicare3-scaled.jpg\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medicare3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Waving signs for anyone who will see.\" \/><figcaption>Waving signs for anyone who will see.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"57d6c0d\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Coming out for this important message.\" href=\"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medicare1-scaled.jpg\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medicare1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Coming out for this important message.\" \/><figcaption>Coming out for this important message.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a><a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"57d6c0d\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"The pandemic makes this even more urgent.\" href=\"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medicare2-scaled.jpg\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/portland.raginggrannies.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/medicare2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The pandemic makes this even more urgent.\" \/><figcaption>The pandemic makes this even more urgent.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 22, 2020 was a National Day of Action for Medicare for All. The Portland Raging Grannies were honored to show up and amplify this important message. Our health care system fails to provide quality care to every US resident and wastes hundreds of billions of dollars a year in unnecessary administrative costs.\u00a0The COVID-19 pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,31,6],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-healthcare","tag-medicare","tag-social-equity-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.raginggrannies.international\/portland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}