{"id":34735,"date":"2012-09-24T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/battle_over_numbers_in_debate_over_expansion_of_medicaid_in_south_carolina\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T18:00:29","slug":"battle_over_numbers_in_debate_over_expansion_of_medicaid_in_south_carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34735","title":{"rendered":"Battle over numbers in debate over expansion of Medicaid in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would an expansion of Medicaid under the federal health-care law help or hinder South Carolina\u2019s finances? Depends who you ask.<\/p>\n<p>Strains of disagreement are building against the backdrop of a campaign by Gov. Nikki Haley\u2019s administration to build opposition to an expansion.<br \/>Generally opposed by Republicans and favored by Democrats, the debate over whether to expand the Medicaid program in the states is set to play out in many statehouses across the country. That\u2019s because a June Supreme Court ruling made the extension of coverage optional.<\/p>\n<p>In the Palmetto State, advocates for the expansion contend Haley\u2019s administration is emphasizing the costs and underselling offsetting economic benefits of an expansion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20120924\/PC16\/120929614\/1177\/battle-over-numbers-in-debate-over-expansion-of-medicaid-in-sc\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would an expansion of Medicaid under the federal health-care law help or hinder South Carolina\u2019s finances? Depends who you ask. Strains of disagreement are building against the backdrop of a campaign by Gov. Nikki Haley\u2019s administration to build opposition to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34735\">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":[39,40,54,513,103,670,582,589,149,104,114,151,88,619,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-aging-the-elderly","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735","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=34735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}