{"id":38308,"date":"2013-05-15T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mcclatchy_most_doctors_still_reject_medicaid_as_program_expansion_nears\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:45:54","slug":"mcclatchy_most_doctors_still_reject_medicaid_as_program_expansion_nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38308","title":{"rendered":"(McClatchy) Most doctors still reject Medicaid as program expansion nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sandra Duck thinks she\u2019s the victim of an undeclared Medicaid boycott. And she\u2019s probably right.<\/p>\n<p>When her artificial right hip became infected with the superbug MRSA in late 2009, Dr. Dale Mitchum, a general surgeon, drained, cleaned and closed the infected area. But when the infection returned in early 2010, Mitchum knew Duck needed another hip replacement surgery, which he couldn\u2019t perform. He tried to find an orthopedic surgeon who would operate. More than a year later, he\u2019s still trying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot find a living soul that will touch her,\u201d\u009d he said recently. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve tried everywhere, from Tallahassee to Pensacola.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/05\/13\/191105\/most-doctors-still-reject-medicaid.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra Duck thinks she\u2019s the victim of an undeclared Medicaid boycott. And she\u2019s probably right. When her artificial right hip became infected with the superbug MRSA in late 2009, Dr. Dale Mitchum, a general surgeon, drained, cleaned and closed the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38308\">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":[39,40,513,582,589,149,168,104,114,676,593,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38308","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-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-medicaid","category-personal-finance","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38308","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=38308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}