{"id":45371,"date":"2014-07-29T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_south_carolina_medicaid_backlog_leaves_thousands_in_insurance_l\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:01:46","slug":"local_paper_south_carolina_medicaid_backlog_leaves_thousands_in_insurance_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45371","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina Medicaid backlog leaves thousands in insurance limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of South Carolina residents who filed for Medicaid between October and mid-July are still waiting to find out if they qualify for the government&#8217;s low-income health insurance program.<\/p>\n<p>While most Medicaid applications are typically approved or denied within six days, the state agency responsible for processing the paperwork hasn&#8217;t been able to keep pace with an influx from HealthCare.gov.<\/p>\n<p>More than 43,000 South Carolina Medicaid applications were submitted through the new federal health insurance marketplace between Oct. 1 and July 13, but the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services has only managed to make its way through 25 percent of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140728\/PC16\/140729362\/1006\/backlog-leaves-thousands-in-insurance-limbo\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of South Carolina residents who filed for Medicaid between October and mid-July are still waiting to find out if they qualify for the government&#8217;s low-income health insurance program. While most Medicaid applications are typically approved or denied within six<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45371\">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":[39,40,54,149,104,676,151,619,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-medicaid","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\/45371","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=45371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}