{"id":12333,"date":"2019-01-03T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12333"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:50:38","slug":"how-the-government-shutdown-affects-health-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12333","title":{"rendered":"How The Government Shutdown Affects Health Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be no end in sight for the\u00a0current partial government shutdown, the third since the beginning of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>For the vast majority of the federal government\u2019s public health efforts, though, it\u2019s business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Congress has already passed five of its major appropriations bills, funding about three-fourths of the federal government, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/how-the-government-shutdown-affects-health-programs\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68715612&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8iXWHewjBPb9StDrBo50FC6PwK1habTGebBFo0mDrnj_AI1zIMLkJP4hG4nuF8C1z6Fa97khtD_58Mm0EtSvbqKHci3w&amp;_hsmi=68715612\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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