{"id":21858,"date":"2023-09-28T09:15:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2023-09-28T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:15:21","slug":"what-happens-to-health-programs-if-the-federal-government-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21858","title":{"rendered":"What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Julie Rowner for NPR on September 27, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time since 2019, congressional gridlock is poised to at least temporarily shut down big parts of the federal government \u2014 including many health programs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/09\/27\/1201996321\/what-happens-to-health-programs-if-the-federal-government-shuts-down\">Here&#8230;<\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julie Rowner for NPR on September 27, 2023 For the first time since 2019, congressional gridlock is poised to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,200,16,6],"tags":[890,303,61],"class_list":["post-21858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","tag-government-shutdown","tag-health-care","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21859,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions\/21859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}