{"id":5945,"date":"2017-02-22T00:55:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2017-02-22T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:01:55","slug":"kaiser-health-news-health-laws-10-essential-benefits-a-look-at-whats-at-risk-in-gop-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Health News: Health Law\u2019s 10 Essential Benefits: A Look At What\u2019s At Risk In GOP Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<span class=\"byline\">By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Republicans look at ways to replace or repair the health law, many suggest shrinking the list of services insurers are required to offer\u00a0in\u00a0individual and small group plans would reduce costs and increase flexibility. That option came to the forefront last week when Seema Verma, who is slated to run the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services in the Trump administration, noted at her confirmation hearing that coverage for maternity services should be optional in those health plans. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/health-laws-10-essential-benefits-a-look-at-whats-at-risk-in-gop-overhaul\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=43025920&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8oslFs1JkprbpVHabTtNojvF0vjHqnUw_X0hXf6jTzdxaTVwvAdxj8JZDxuC_Mb4SF6vltoaNodl716qUbvS35pEQ4IA&amp;_hsmi=43025920\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"100\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News) As Republicans look at ways to replace or repair the health law, many suggest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5946,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}