{"id":535,"date":"2015-08-16T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=535"},"modified":"2015-08-15T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T20:23:56","slug":"d-c-week-ranks-of-uninsured-continue-to-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Week: Ranks of Uninsured Continue to Shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"author-name-no-email\">Shannon Firth, via\u00a0www.medpagetoday.com)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week on the Hill, the uninsured rate dropped 3 percentage points in the first quarter, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services agreed to cover an expensive new cancer therapy, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) prodded CMS to gather more data from states with an eye towards implementing more Medicaid fraud protections. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/Washington-Watch\/Washington-Watch\/53091\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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 on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.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 &#8211;\u00a0Shannon Firth, via\u00a0www.medpagetoday.com)\u00a0 This week on the Hill, the uninsured rate dropped 3 percentage points in the first quarter,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}