{"id":10308,"date":"2012-08-29T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=10308"},"modified":"2012-08-29T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:43:24","slug":"cato-and-alec-reps-to-speak-at-health-exchange-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/29\/cato-and-alec-reps-to-speak-at-health-exchange-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cato And ALEC Reps To Speak At Health Exchange Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10311\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Part of the health insurance exchange work group at their first meeting earlier this month.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/photo2.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10311\" title=\"Health Exchange Work Group\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/photo2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/photo2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/photo2-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the health insurance exchange work group at their first meeting earlier this month.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s group to study whether Idaho should have a <a title=\"It Would \u201cBe A Miracle\u201d If State Meets Health Insurance Exchange Deadline\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/02\/it-would-be-a-miracle-if-state-meets-health-insurance-exchange-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance exchange<\/a> meets for the second time today.<\/p>\n<p>Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter created two work groups following the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to uphold President Obama&#8217;s health care law.\u00a0 Otter must decide whether Idaho should set up an <a title=\"It Would \u201cBe A Miracle\u201d If State Meets Health Insurance Exchange Deadline\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/02\/it-would-be-a-miracle-if-state-meets-health-insurance-exchange-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\">online marketplace<\/a> for people to purchase health insurance, and whether the state should <a title=\"Supporters Of Idaho Medicaid Expansion Speak Out, But Costs Remain A Big Question\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/07\/supporters-of-idaho-medicaid-expansion-speak-out-but-costs-remain-a-big-question\/\" target=\"_blank\">expand Medicaid eligibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Health policy studies director at the Libertarian-leaning Cato Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/people\/michael-cannon\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Cannon<\/a> is scheduled to speak to the group.\u00a0 Cannon&#8217;s online bio says he was a policy analyst for the Senate&#8217;s Republican Policy Committee, working with former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig.<\/p>\n<p>The American Legislative Exchange Council&#8217;s interim director of the health and human services task force, Sean Riley, will also speak.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doi.idaho.gov\/HealthExchange\/HIEagendaAug29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance exchange work group<\/a> meets at 10 a.m. at the state Capitol.\u00a0 Idaho Public Television will <a href=\"http:\/\/idahoptv.org\/leglive\/legBody.cfm?pubPoint=WW02AUD\" target=\"_blank\">live-stream the meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor&#8217;s group to study whether Idaho should have a health insurance exchange meets for the second time today. Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter created two work groups following the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to uphold President Obama&#8217;s health care law.\u00a0 Otter must decide whether Idaho should set up an online marketplace for people to purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":10311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[27,119],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10316,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10308\/revisions\/10316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}