{"id":241,"date":"2011-09-18T11:54:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=241"},"modified":"2011-09-18T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:54:34","slug":"affordable-care-act-is-already-working-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/affordable-care-act-is-already-working-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Care Act is already working, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act don\u2019t kick in for a few years, but in the meantime, we\u2019re already seeing indications that the law is working as intended.<\/p>\n<p>We talked yesterday about the fact that the number of young adults \u2014 those between the ages of 19 and 25 \u2014 with health care coverage has gone up considerably, thanks to the new law\u2019s consumer protection reforms. It comes on the heels of reports that the Affordable Care Act is a positive impact on slowing the growth in Medicare spending \u2014 a priority Republicans pretend to care about \u2014 as hospitals transition to a greater focus on value and efficiency, required under the ACA.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out these aren\u2019t the only signs of progress.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/political-animal\/2011_09\/affordable_care_act_is_already032229.php\">Political Animal &#8211; Affordable Care Act is already working, Part III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act don\u2019t kick in for a few years, but in the meantime, we\u2019re already seeing indications that the law is working as intended. We talked yesterday about the fact that the number of young adults \u2014 those between the ages of 19 and 25 \u2014 with health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[125,123,126],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}