President-Elect Donald Trump promised he wasn\u2019t going to change Medicare if elected. But his pick for health and human services secretary, Tom Price, has been a vocal supporter of dismantling Medicare and leaving seniors to pick up the tab.<\/p>\n
More than 55 million Americans currently depend on Medicare\u2014and that\u2019s not counting the working people who are depending on it when they retire in the future. We can\u2019t let anyone undermine it. So we\u2019re calling on our members of Congress to stand against Price\u2019s nomination for secretary of health and human services.<\/p>\n
Click here to sign the petition immediately, and urge your legislators to oppose Tom Price for health and human services secretary.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President-Elect Donald Trump promised he wasn\u2019t going to change Medicare if elected. But his pick for health and human services secretary, Tom Price, has been a vocal supporter of dismantling Medicare and leaving seniors to pick up the tab. More than 55 million Americans currently depend on Medicare\u2014and that\u2019s not counting the working people who … Continue reading “Sign the petition: Oppose Tom Price as HHS Secretary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-political-action"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergenclc.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}