{"id":1254,"date":"2015-11-24T07:23:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2015-11-24T07:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T12:23:55","slug":"the-cato-institute-invites-you-to-a-policy-forum-on-wednesday-december-16-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"The Cato Institute invites you to a Policy Forum on Wednesday, December 16, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; CATO.org)<\/p>\n<div class=\"field-speakers\">Featuring <strong>Liz Jackson<\/strong>, Disability Advocate and Affordable Care Act Volunteer Navigator; with comments by<strong>Michael F. Cannon<\/strong>, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute.<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-body\">\n<p>\u201cIf anyone could manage to obtain treatment under the Affordable Care Act,\u201d <em>The New York Times<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/07\/nyregion\/new-yorkers-face-hard-decisions-after-collapse-of-health-republic-insurance.html?ref=nyregion&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>, \u201cit should have been Liz Jackson. With a severe nerve condition that forced her out of a job, Jackson did not just qualify for a government-subsidized plan, she also knew her way around the new system, having been trained as a volunteer \u2018health care navigator\u2019 to help others sign up. Yet the collapse of her insurer, Health Republic Insurance of New York \u2014 the largest of 12 health care co-ops nationwide set to close this year \u2014 has left her and more than 200,000 others in a panic over medical coverage after their plan ceases on Nov. 30.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/events\/discontinuity-care\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; CATO.org) Featuring Liz Jackson, Disability Advocate and Affordable Care Act Volunteer Navigator; with comments byMichael F. Cannon, Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}