{"id":22287,"date":"2010-10-10T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/locla_newspaper_editorial-the_sad_state_of_obamacare\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:00:14","slug":"locla_newspaper_editorial-the_sad_state_of_obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22287","title":{"rendered":"Local Newspaper Editorial&#8211;The Sad state of ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news isn&#8217;t always a surprise. But knowing it&#8217;s coming doesn&#8217;t always help, either. And now that, as expected, South Carolina now faces a huge new bill due to Obama-Care, our state faces a terrible dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>The president and his allies in Congress promised that their massive health care overhaul would extend coverage to roughly 30 million previously uninsured Americans. The bill&#8217;s critics, including S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford, warned that the states would have to cover large new tabs due to the bill&#8217;s vastly increased number of people eligible for Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>The critics were right. Tuesday&#8217;s Post and Courier reported that the ObamaCare Medicaid mandate is projected to cost our state &#8220;nearly $1 billion over the next decade, even with the federal government covering at least 90 percent of the cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/09\/sad-state-of-obamacare\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news isn&#8217;t always a surprise. But knowing it&#8217;s coming doesn&#8217;t always help, either. And now that, as expected, South Carolina now faces a huge new bill due to Obama-Care, our state faces a terrible dilemma. The president and his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22287\">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":[39,40,513,582,589,149,104,617,616,151,667,618,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287","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=22287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}