{"id":23777,"date":"2011-01-02T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/upcoming_medicaid_cuts_a_big_issue_for_diabetics_in_south_carolina\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T17:48:33","slug":"upcoming_medicaid_cuts_a_big_issue_for_diabetics_in_south_carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23777","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Medicaid Cuts a big issue for diabetics in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates for diabetes patients are voicing concerns that Medicaid cuts taking effect in February will reverse gains South Carolina has made over the past decade in managing diabetics&#8217; health.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors have treated diabetes aggressively in recent years, but cuts in the number of drugs Medicaid covers &#8212; reductions state health officials called difficult but necessary &#8212; might compromise that focus, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The number of diagnosed cases of adult-onset diabetes has risen dramatically, but the rate of lower- extremity amputations has decreased, according to preliminary findings from the annual report of the Diabetes Initiative of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/dec\/27\/cuts-a-big-issue-for-diabetics\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates for diabetes patients are voicing concerns that Medicaid cuts taking effect in February will reverse gains South Carolina has made over the past decade in managing diabetics&#8217; health. Doctors have treated diabetes aggressively in recent years, but cuts in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23777\">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":[39,40,670,149,104,151,619,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777","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=23777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}