{"id":3108,"date":"2013-02-11T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:29:26","slug":"in-some-states-opposition-to-medicaid-expansion-leading-employers-to-brace-for-higher-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/in-some-states-opposition-to-medicaid-expansion-leading-employers-to-brace-for-higher-health-care-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"In Some States, Opposition To Medicaid Expansion Leading Employers To Brace For Higher Health Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/report-u-s-health-spending-grew-at-record-slow-pace-for-third-consecutive-year\/health-caduceus_logo_blue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2928\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2928\" alt=\"health-caduceus_logo_blue\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-262x300.png\" width=\"183\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-262x300.png 262w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-131x150.png 131w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-400x457.png 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue.png 481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/report-u-s-health-spending-grew-at-record-slow-pace-for-third-consecutive-year\/health-caduceus_logo_blue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2928\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend. Meanwhile, other news outlets report on state-specific developments regarding the debates over expanding the health program for low-income people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wall Street Journal: In Medicaid, A New Health-Care Fight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employers in several states are bracing for higher health-care costs as some governors, worried about the impact on state budgets from the federal overhaul, resist a planned Medicaid expansion (Radnofsky, 2\/10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaiser Health News: Medicaid Transformation Watched Closely In Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week the federal government signed off on the first part of a plan that could eventually steer more than 3 million low-income Floridians on Medicaid into a managed care, or HMO system. The decision comes two years after Florida lawmakers approved the conversion in an attempt to control costs in the $21 billion program (Hatter, 2\/8).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stateline: Seizing Medicaid Expansion As A Means to Reform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just two states have governors who are physicians. Democrat John Kitzhaber of Oregon is an emergency room doctor. Republican Robert Bentley of Alabama is a dermatologist. Their states may have little in common, but the medically trained governors have embraced similar Medicaid reforms (Vestal, 2\/11).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Daily-Reports\/2013\/February\/11\/medicaid-expansion.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">In Some States, Opposition To Medicaid Expansion Leading Employers To Brace For Higher Health Care Costs &#8211; Kaiser Health News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal reports on this trend. Meanwhile, other news outlets report on state-specific developments regarding the debates over expanding the health program for low-income people. The Wall Street Journal: In Medicaid, A New Health-Care Fight Employers in several states are bracing for higher health-care costs as some governors, worried about the impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[791,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108"}],"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=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}