{"id":29900,"date":"2011-12-17T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T19:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/minimum_essential_health_benefits_will_be_largely_set_by_states\/"},"modified":"2011-12-17T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T19:15:13","slug":"minimum_essential_health_benefits_will_be_largely_set_by_states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29900","title":{"rendered":"Minimum essential health benefits will be largely set by states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration will give states broad latitude to define the minimum benefits that many health insurance policies will be required to offer under the 2010 health-care law, officials announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The plan sparked criticism from interest groups on all sides of the issue. Consumer advocates worried that millions of Americans could end up with insurance substantially less comprehensive than the law\u2019s drafters intended. Representatives of employers and insurers warned of an opposite scenario: A state could make the benefits package so comprehensive that the resulting plans would be prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/minimum-essential-health-benefits-will-be-largely-set-by-states\/2011\/12\/16\/gIQAx5FHzO_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration will give states broad latitude to define the minimum benefits that many health insurance policies will be required to offer under the 2010 health-care law, officials announced Friday. The plan sparked criticism from interest groups on all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29900\">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":[39,40,513,149,104,114,151,619,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","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\/29900","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=29900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}