{"id":29089,"date":"2017-04-20T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/anxiety\/29089\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:00:45","slug":"groups-warn-of-rural-health-crisis-under-obamacare-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/29089","title":{"rendered":"Groups warn of rural health \u2018crisis\u2019 under ObamaCare repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p><p>From The Hill:<\/p>\n<p>Rural areas would be hit particularly hard if Congress and the Trump administration don\u2019t send clear signals that they\u2019re committed to helping keep ObamaCare\u2019s insurance marketplaces stable next year, advocates warn.<\/p>\n<p>Insurers are in the midst of deciding which ObamaCare markets to enter, and they need assurances that they won\u2019t have to pay billions for out-of-pocket costs for certain low-income consumers. Rural areas already have fewer care options than their urban peers.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201ccrisis in rural counties,\u201d\u00a0is possible without more clarity, said\u00a0Alan Morgan, the CEO of the National Rural Health Association, an umbrella group representing hospitals, doctors and others that work in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any intervention, this is going to be a mess.\u201d<\/p><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23655\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23655&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p><p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><p>From The Hill:<\/p>\n<p>Rural areas would be hit particularly hard if Congress and the Trump administration don\u2019t send clear signals that they\u2019re committed to helping keep ObamaCare\u2019s insurance marketplaces stable next year, advocates warn.<\/p>\n<p>Insurers are in the midst of deciding which ObamaCare markets to enter, and they need assurances that they won\u2019t have to pay billions for out-of-pocket costs for certain low-income consumers. Rural areas already have fewer care options than their urban peers.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201ccrisis in rural counties,\u201d\u00a0is possible without more clarity, said\u00a0Alan Morgan, the CEO of the National Rural Health Association, an umbrella group representing hospitals, doctors and others that work in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any intervention, this is going to be a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/acutecareinc.wordpress.com\/23655\/\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=acutecareinc.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2103256&#038;post=23655&#038;subd=acutecareinc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}