{"id":161472,"date":"2024-08-21T04:29:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T04:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=161472"},"modified":"2024-08-21T04:29:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T04:29:36","slug":"the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=161472","title":{"rendered":"The Politics Holding Back Medicaid Expansion in Some Southern States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten states have not expanded Medicaid, leaving 1.5 million people ineligible for the state and federal insurance program and also unable to afford private insurance. Seven of those states are in the South, where expansion efforts may have momentum but where lawmakers say political polarization is holding them back&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/politics-medicaid-expansion-mississippi-south\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten states have not expanded Medicaid, leaving 1.5 million people ineligible for the state and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",150,100,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",300,200,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",825,549,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/161472-the-politics-holding-back-medicaid-expansion-in-some-southern-states.jpg",590,393,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}