{"id":8142,"date":"2012-07-23T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T21:12:03","slug":"the-argument-against-expanding-medicaid-in-oklahoma-bulleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/07\/23\/the-argument-against-expanding-medicaid-in-oklahoma-bulleted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Argument Against Expanding Medicaid in Oklahoma, Bulleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should Oklahoma accept a federally funded Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act?<\/p><p>There are four key arguments against it, writes the <em>Tulsa World<\/em>&#8216;s Wayne Greene. The argument against expanding Medicaid, bulleted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) It will cost Oklahoma too much<\/li>\n<li>2) It will cost the U.S. too much<\/li>\n<li>3) It&#8217;s expanding a broken system<\/li>\n<li>4) It&#8217;s philosophically wrong<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/news\/article.aspx?subjectid=336&articleid=20120722_16_A8_Herear807671\">Check out Greene&#8217;s piece<\/a> for the rationale behind each of the arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Oklahoma accept a federally funded Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act?There are four key arguments against it, writes the Tulsa World&#8216;s Wayne Greene. The argument against expanding Medicaid, bulleted: 1) It will cost Oklahoma too much 2) It will cost the U.S. too much 3) It&#8217;s expanding a broken system 4) It&#8217;s philosophically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[400,125],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8147,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}