{"id":21428,"date":"2014-09-03T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21428"},"modified":"2014-09-03T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T00:08:13","slug":"wyoming-latest-to-consider-medicaid-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21428\/wyoming-latest-to-consider-medicaid-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Latest to Consider Medicaid Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my column this week, I explain how not every Medicaid expansion through ObamaCare is necessarily a bad thing. The crux of my argument is that states that use the extra money to move the program in a more market-friendly direction \u2013 and as a consequence, make it more cost-conscious and consumer-driven \u2013 should be given a chance to test their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Republican governors in Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/wyoming-medicaid-expansion-obamacare-why-wy \" target=\"_blank\">and now perhaps Wyoming<\/a> \u2013 should be given some space before conservatives conflate them with other GOP leaders who simply expanded Medicaid without bothering to wring any reforms from the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Every state is already in the business of participating in Medicaid. If conservatives are willing to consider <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1253-paul-ryans-new-medicare-reform-is-pro-market- \" target=\"_blank\">Paul Ryan\u2019s Medicare reform a step in the right direction<\/a>, then we should extend the same courtesy to Republican governors who are trying to do something similar with Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>At least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my column this week, I explain how not every Medicaid expansion through ObamaCare is necessarily a bad thing. The crux of my argument is that states that use the extra money to move the program in a more market-friendly direction \u2013 and as a consequence, make it more cost-conscious and consumer-driven \u2013 should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,35,4581],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-medicaid","tag-obamacare","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21433,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions\/21433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}