{"id":154,"date":"2013-01-24T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-01-24T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T02:58:00","slug":"gov-bobby-jindals-administration-reverses-planned-elimination-of-medicaid-hospice-program-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Bobby Jindal\u2019s administration reverses planned elimination of Medicaid hospice program &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/candlelight-vigil-set-to-protest-gov-bobby-jindals-elimination-of-medicaid-hospice-program\/2013\/01\/23\/b0f445ec-6598-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html\">Gov. Bobby Jindal\u2019s administration reverses planned elimination of Medicaid hospice program &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BATON ROUGE, La. \u2014 Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal\u2019s administration  scrapped plans Wednesday to shutter the state\u2019s Medicaid hospice program  in February, meaning the state will continue to provide end-of-life  care to people on their death beds who can\u2019t afford private insurance.       <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jindal\u2019s health secretary Bruce Greenstein made the  announcement as hospice program supporters were gathering for a  candlelight vigil on the state capitol steps to protest the cut.  Greenstein said his department will use grant funding to cover the  hospice costs this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The stupidity, economically speaking, and the heartlessness, you know, human being-wise, of some of these self described &#8220;Christians&#8221; (ChristoRepublicanus Americanus?) is astounding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bobby Jindal\u2019s administration reverses planned elimination of Medicaid hospice program &#8211; The Washington Post BATON ROUGE, La. \u2014 Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal\u2019s administration scrapped plans Wednesday to shutter the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gov. Bobby Jindal\u2019s administration reverses planned elimination of Medicaid hospice program &#8211; The Washington Post&#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":[13,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life-care","category-medicaid"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}