{"id":603289,"date":"2009-10-21T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"92d1cd92-ca1a-438b-a8d2-f636573ea6d9"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:24:33","slug":"dr-john-kitzhaber-on-reforming-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/603289","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Kitzhaber On Reforming Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Checking-In-With\/checking-in-with-kitzhaber.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> features an interview with former Oregon governor, Dr. John Kitzhaber. When he\u00a0\"was president of the Oregon Senate, the state's languishing economy was tightening the screws on Medicaid outlays. But Kitzhaber, a Democrat, and others wanted to find a way to avoid having to drop residents from the federal-state health program for the poor and disabled, and they came up with a radical idea.\" Its success\u00a0\"<span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">helped earn Kitzhaber, by then the governor, a national profile\" (Moore, 10\/21). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Checking-In-With\/checking-in-with-kitzhaber.aspx\" >Read entire story<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/puY0l3LXSSk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News features an interview with former Oregon governor, Dr. John Kitzhaber. When he\u00a0&#8220;was president of the Oregon Senate, the state&#8217;s languishing economy was tightening the screws on Medicaid outlays. But Kitzhaber, a Democrat, and others wanted to find a way to avoid having to drop residents from the federal-state health program for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2wWt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}