{"id":14753,"date":"2009-09-02T01:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr-arizona_faces_financial_tsunami_over_medicaid\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T01:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T01:47:25","slug":"npr-arizona_faces_financial_tsunami_over_medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14753","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8211;Arizona Faces &#39;Financial Tsunami&#39; Over Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a normal year, we might see 60,000 additional members,&#8221; says Tony Rodgers, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state&#8217;s Medicaid agency. &#8220;We&#8217;re probably going to see close to 300,000 additional members by the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The discussion in Washington over health care includes an expansion of Medicaid, but Arizona is having trouble paying for the program at its current level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is kind of a financial tsunami for us,&#8221; says Rodgers. &#8220;And we&#8217;re just trying to hold onto any log that&#8217;s rolling along, and trying to save ourselves until the wave stops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=112208026\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a normal year, we might see 60,000 additional members,&#8221; says Tony Rodgers, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), the state&#8217;s Medicaid agency. &#8220;We&#8217;re probably going to see close to 300,000 additional members by the end<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14753\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,104,151,619,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}