{"id":9161,"date":"2025-05-13T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-movement-the-think-tank-at-the-center-of-the-maga-medicaid-firestorm\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:20:37","slug":"the-movement-the-think-tank-at-the-center-of-the-maga-medicaid-firestorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-movement-the-think-tank-at-the-center-of-the-maga-medicaid-firestorm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Movement: The think tank at the center of the MAGA Medicaid firestorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young, well-connected think tank is at the center of Republicans&rsquo; efforts to reform Medicaid as part of President Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;one big beautiful bill&rdquo; &mdash; and the divide in the party about how far to go with cuts.  Here&rsquo;s one sign of the impact of Paragon Health Institute&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5296365-paragon-think-tank-medicaid-reform\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young, well-connected think tank is at the center of Republicans&rsquo; efforts to reform Medicaid as part of President Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;one big beautiful bill&rdquo; &mdash; and the divide in the party about how far to go with cuts. Here&rsquo;s one sign of the impact of Paragon Health Institute&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9161","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\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}