{"id":4218,"date":"2016-09-08T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:02:39","slug":"as-health-officials-warn-of-crisis-congresss-zika-fight-is-prolonged-by-a-sense-of-apathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4218","title":{"rendered":"As health officials warn of crisis, Congress\u2019s Zika fight is prolonged by a sense of apathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Dylan Scott for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span>ASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Seven months after President Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/02\/22\/obama-zika-funding-request\/\" target=\"_blank\">first requested emergency funding<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> to respond to the Zika crisis, an end to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/14\/zika-funding-senate-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">the congressional impasse<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup> over the money might finally be in sight. But first, the partisan politics are likely to stew for a little while longer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/07\/zika-crisis-public-congress-apathy\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tvjetrAOg40xEJNiYufbaXcgc8qWHOvhuJTgupVlqgjOx0JzI3oPDpnD1tg1GlTV4cyBWTX7Odek5SYA3PmsauFKk-Q&amp;_hsmi=33929886\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Dylan Scott for STAT) WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Seven months after President Obama first requested emergency funding1 to respond to the Zika crisis,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4219,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}