{"id":15274,"date":"2020-02-20T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15274"},"modified":"2020-02-20T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:39:46","slug":"15274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15274","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Adult Opportunity waiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicaid is consuming an ever-larger share of spending at the federal and state level and squeezing out other public policy priorities. \u00a0In response to the growing financial and design stagnation, the current administration released its Healthy Adult Opportunity wavier to offer states a simplified process to experiment with the design and financing of their Medicaid programs in ways that reflect the diversity of those who are on it.\u00a0 Although opponents claim this waiver will undermine Medicaid, but according to Nina Owcharenko Schaefer\u2019s article for the Daily Signal, this new waiver gives some states the flexibility and resources needed to better manage and tailor the way care is delivered in their Medicaid program. \u00a0Read her article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2020\/02\/19\/medicaid-waivers-provide-a-pathway-for-health-care-reform\/\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on 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>Medicaid is consuming an ever-larger share of spending at the federal and state level and squeezing out other public policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15276,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15274\/revisions\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}