{"id":901,"date":"2008-10-17T11:36:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=901"},"modified":"2008-10-17T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T15:36:15","slug":"universal-health-care-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Universal Health Care Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s native state&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081017\/ap_on_re_us\/child_health_hawaii\/print\" target=\"_blank\">health care experiment<\/a> working?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Linda Lingle&#8217;s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,&quot; said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. &quot;I don&#8217;t believe that was the intent of the program.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Government programs change people&#8217;s behavior.&#160; You can&#8217;t just create a new program in a vacuum, on a state nor a national level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s native state&#8217;s health care experiment working? Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched. Gov. Linda Lingle&#8217;s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}