{"id":10148,"date":"2015-07-13T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2015-07-13T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T00:44:08","slug":"trump-once-praised-universal-health-care-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"Trump once praised &#8216;universal health care,&#8217; too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick addendum to an earlier blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned how Donald Trump had flipped-flopped on a number of positions.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention his views on universal health care.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"e73iYCU56u\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/247643-meet-the-press-tracks-trumps-flip-flops\/\">&#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; tracks Trump&#8217;s flip-flops<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; tracks Trump&#8217;s flip-flops&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/247643-meet-the-press-tracks-trumps-flip-flops\/embed\/#?secret=Ucqt8Xb9To#?secret=e73iYCU56u\" data-secret=\"e73iYCU56u\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He used to favor universal health care; now he opposes it, particularly in the form of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>I get that pols occasionally change their minds. President Obama used to oppose gay marriage; he now supports it. Secretary of State John Kerry voted for authorization to go to war in Iraq before he opposed it.<\/p>\n<p>But check out the link from today&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; segment\u00a0attached to this post about The Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty amazing &#8230; in my oh-so-humble view.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick addendum to an earlier blog post. I mentioned how Donald Trump had flipped-flopped on a number of positions. I forgot to mention his views on universal health care. &#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; tracks Trump&#8217;s flip-flops He used to favor universal health care; now he opposes it, particularly in the form of the Affordable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump once praised &#8216;universal health care,&#8217; too<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[14],"tags":[540,1424,2539,2991],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kerry","tag-meet-the-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}