{"id":6044,"date":"2017-03-03T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:31:23","slug":"for-new-medicaid-patients-the-doctor-is-in-generally-but-you-may-have-to-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6044","title":{"rendered":"For New Medicaid Patients, The Doctor Is In (Generally). But You May Have To Wait."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>More than 14 million adults have <a href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/state-indicator\/medicaid-expansion-enrollment\/?currentTimeframe=0&amp;sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\">enrolled in Medicaid<\/a> since the health law passed, and that has\u00a0caused some hand-wringing over whether there would be enough primary care providers to meet the demand. But a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2605525\" target=\"_blank\">study out this week<\/a>\u00a0suggests that the newly insured people are generally able to get timely appointments for primary care. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/for-new-medicaid-patients-the-doctor-is-in-generally-but-you-may-have-to-wait\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=43790668&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9PTlah2YQp3bsdiO_9Oy1XPbb8_qnAKOBEOmzo-cTtCc-9oB_7_Q-pIZzsygm0dDE2Q6l25du_jnN43TfhiT0H4dq79w&amp;_hsmi=43790668\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) More than 14 million adults have enrolled in Medicaid since the health law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6044","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\/6044","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=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}