{"id":144,"date":"2013-02-11T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-02-11T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:17:00","slug":"take-money-for-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Take money for Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Arkoosh and Marc Stier in Philly.com<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If we take the money to expand Medicaid, Pennsylvania will receive $43.3 billion over 10 years from the federal government. And if for any reason the money does not come to Pennsylvania, the governor can cancel the expansion at any time. <\/p>\n<p>Taking federal money to expand Medicaid requires Pennsylvania to spend $4 billion over 10 years. But roughly $2 billion will be saved because federal money will replace funding for General Assistance-related programs. More than $850 million will be saved because the state will not have to compensate hospitals for ER care for the uninsured. And between $800 million and $1.4 billion will be available for county health services, where harsh cuts have already taken place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/opinion\/inquirer\/20130211_Take_money_for_Medicaid.html\">Take money for Medicaid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Arkoosh and Marc Stier in Philly.com If we take the money to expand Medicaid, Pennsylvania will receive $43.3 billion over 10 years from the federal government. And if for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take money for Medicaid&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicaid","category-pennsylvania","category-ppaca"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}