{"id":10479,"date":"2025-06-20T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-hidden-casualties-of-medicaid-cuts-americas-family-caregivers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:22:01","slug":"the-hidden-casualties-of-medicaid-cuts-americas-family-caregivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-hidden-casualties-of-medicaid-cuts-americas-family-caregivers\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden casualties of Medicaid cuts: America&#8217;s family caregivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicaid provides essential support for family caregivers, enabling them to provide critical care for loved ones with rare diseases, chronic illnesses, and disabilities, and proposed cuts to Medicaid would severely impact these caregivers and the health care system as a whole&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/5359638-medicaid-cuts-family-caregivers\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicaid provides essential support for family caregivers, enabling them to provide critical care for loved ones with rare diseases, chronic illnesses, and disabilities, and proposed cuts to Medicaid would severely impact these caregivers and the health care system as a whole&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}