{"id":3610,"date":"2012-11-09T18:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T23:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2012-11-09T18:45:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T23:45:47","slug":"on-the-sidelines-of-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"On The Sidelines Of Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a long weekend free of obsessively refreshing the FiveThirtyEight blog. For your Sunday health policy reading, I recommend Sarah Kliff&#8217;s piece on how recalcitrant Republican governors are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/wp\/2012\/11\/09\/why-republican-governors-want-to-leave-obamacare-to-the-feds\/\">letting the federal government step in to run health insurance exchanges<\/a> instead of establishing state-based exchanges. GOP governors figure that, rather than try to do all the heavy lifting necessary to set up an exchange, it&#8217;s better to let the feds shoulder the burden.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to disagree with their reasoning. Minnesota is creating an exchange and it&#8217;s a gargantuan task requiring lots of planning and coordination. I&#8217;m learning more about business process modeling than I ever anticipated or desired. Minnesota will be successful in its efforts, but I don&#8217;t see how a state that previously resisted health care reform could now reverse course and have an exchange ready to go by next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a long weekend free of obsessively refreshing the FiveThirtyEight blog. For your Sunday health policy reading, I recommend Sarah Kliff&#8217;s piece on how recalcitrant Republican governors are letting the federal government step in to run health insurance exchanges instead of establishing state-based exchanges. GOP governors figure that, rather than try to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3610' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-wonkery","category-25-id","category-15-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-We","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}