{"id":3786,"date":"2013-02-21T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2013-02-21T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:37:52","slug":"evolving-on-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"Evolving On Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican resistance to the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare continues to crumble. Florida governor and Tea Party mascot Rick Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/21\/why-republican-governors-are-saying-yes-to-medicaid-no-to-obamacares-exchanges\/\">announced yesterday<\/a> that he will accept federal funding for a Medicaid expansion, joining a growing list of GOP governors who have developed amnesia about their previous fierce resistance to the health care law. Other states (I&#8217;m looking at you, Wisconsin) continue to hold out, but I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;ll come around eventually&#8211;assuming they remain in office. Now, if only this epidemic of conservative sanity could spread to Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican resistance to the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare continues to crumble. Florida governor and Tea Party mascot Rick Scott announced yesterday that he will accept federal funding for a Medicaid expansion, joining a growing list of GOP governors who have developed amnesia about their previous fierce resistance to the health care law. Other states (I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3786' 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","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-Z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","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=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}