{"id":103718,"date":"2020-03-13T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-demands-the-government-distribute-a-universal-basic-income-and-implement-medicare-for-all-to-fight-the-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-13T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:23:42","slug":"alexandria-ocasio-cortez-demands-the-government-distribute-a-universal-basic-income-and-implement-medicare-for-all-to-fight-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-demands-the-government-distribute-a-universal-basic-income-and-implement-medicare-for-all-to-fight-the-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demands the government distribute a universal basic income and implement \u2018Medicare for all\u2019 to fight the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-demands-the-government-distribute-a-universal-basic-income-and-implement-medicare-for-all-to-fight-the-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The House is preparing to vote on Thursday on a coronavirus-relief bill that would provide Americans with paid sick leave, food assistance, free coronavirus testing, and more substantial unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>But Ocasio-Cortez pushed for a more sweeping response, including expanding Medicare or Medicaid to cover all Americans, a freeze on evictions, a universal basic income, ending work requirements for food-assistance programs, criminal-justice reform, and freezing student-debt collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the time for half measures,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1238082295359328256\">tweeted<\/a> on Thursday. \u201cWe need to take dramatic action now to stave off the worst public health &amp; economic affects. That includes making moves on paid leave, debt relief, waiving work req\u2019s, guaranteeing healthcare, UBI, detention relief (pretrial, elderly, imm).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House is preparing to vote on Thursday on a coronavirus-relief bill that would provide Americans with paid sick leave, food assistance, free coronavirus testing, and more substantial unemployment benefits. But Ocasio-Cortez pushed for a more sweeping response, including expanding Medicare or Medicaid to cover all Americans, a freeze on evictions, a universal basic income, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1506,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-food","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}