{"id":6323,"date":"2017-03-30T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2017-03-30T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:51:02","slug":"waivers-represent-a-quieter-way-for-republicans-to-change-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6323","title":{"rendered":"Waivers represent a quieter way for Republicans to change health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Gershon for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">T<\/span>he effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to be on life support, with no clear path to passage in both the House and Senate. But that doesn\u2019t mean Republican efforts to transform the ACA are dead. The Trump administration, working with governors and state legislatures, could make dramatic state by state changes to Medicaid and the ACA marketplaces using waivers that are allowed by federal law. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/03\/29\/waivers-health-care-republicans-medicaid\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--JaUFgVvnIzRCxli3YHfNahNyfz2EYWjO3eS8kIskj8ShoXoUHASP42_bfZF4hPlwMTk-miOrDXL-hJLnQ7TQL7P72Hg&amp;_hsmi=49566186\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: 1px solid #eaeaea; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #ffffff; overflow: auto; white-space: pre-wrap; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rachel Gershon for STAT) The effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act appears to be on life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}