{"id":38527,"date":"2009-11-09T10:04:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"2a99fe99-426f-46a3-b6bc-aeb5d20e1111"},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:04:30","slug":"access-to-health-care-neighboring-communities-suffer-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38527","title":{"rendered":"Access To Health Care: Neighboring Communities Suffer Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For people lacking health insurance in the Washington [D.C.] region, where they live can make all the difference in getting affordable health care,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/08\/AR2009110817899.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports. In the District of Columbia, the city provides tax-payer funded health insurance to many; though 10 percent of eligible adults remain uninsured, the city is actively seeking them out. But, in suburban Prince George&#8217;s County, Md., one-fifth of adults are uninsured and while five community clinics treated about 6,000 patients last year, many others did not get care. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lack of health insurance is not the only factor determining whether people have access to care. But many clinics that provide free or low-cost health care to low-income residents say they are flooded with people who have let their health slide, often for years, because they have no insurance&#8221; (Morello, 11\/9).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/S3rAE0UXMGw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For people lacking health insurance in the Washington [D.C.] region, where they live can make all the difference in getting affordable health care,&#8221; The Washington Post reports. In the District of Columbia, the city provides tax-payer funded health insurance to many; though 10 percent of eligible adults remain uninsured, the city is actively seeking them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}