{"id":183,"date":"2012-10-15T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:29:00","slug":"romneys-medicaid-shell-game-boston-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Romney\u2019s Medicaid shell game &#8211; Boston.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-10-12\/opinion\/34403616_1_federal-aid-revenue-maximization-federal-taxes\">Romney\u2019s Medicaid shell game &#8211; Boston.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitt Romney is lambasting federal aid in his campaign for the presidency, including derisive comments against those who receive government assistance. But he pulled all the stops to pursue federal aid as governor of Massachusetts, even hiring \u201crevenue maximization\u201d contractors to scour federal programs for every possible penny \u2014 and using financial schemes to maximize and then divert the aid from his needy constituents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney\u2019s Medicaid shell game &#8211; Boston.com Mitt Romney is lambasting federal aid in his campaign for the presidency, including derisive comments against those who receive government assistance. But he pulled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romney\u2019s Medicaid shell game &#8211; Boston.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicaid","category-romney-ryan"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}