{"id":5389,"date":"2016-12-23T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2016-12-23T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T15:31:28","slug":"montana-may-be-model-for-medicaid-work-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5389","title":{"rendered":"Montana May Be Model For Medicaid Work Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio, with partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Montana State Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/leg.mt.gov\/css\/Sessions\/64th\/leg_info.asp?HouseID=0&amp;SessionID=109&amp;LAWSID=12545\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Buttrey<\/a> is a no-nonsense businessman from Great Falls. Like a lot of Republicans, he\u2019s not a fan of the Affordable Care Act, nor its expansion of Medicaid, the health insurance for the poor and disabled. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/montana-may-be-model-for-medicaid-work-requirement\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39737538&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_KXVpOjIUu0M8QsgvBom9__GvhZNb_GEK_r1QSiWMlQ3XTCA1A171bRuliP5J1AVra4266cIRgc8uGO7C85Qo8QY8S1A&amp;_hsmi=39737538\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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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>(By Eric Whitney, Montana Public Radio, with partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News) Montana State Senator Ed Buttrey is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","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=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}