{"id":43336,"date":"2009-11-17T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"42c9530f-e6c6-48c7-8b1b-b4b32cb0489c"},"modified":"2009-11-17T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:42:42","slug":"state-health-plans-in-washington-kansas-face-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43336","title":{"rendered":"State Health Plans In Washington, Kansas Face Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in\u00a0Washington state and Kansas are working to get residents out of or\u00a0into their state-run insurance programs. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/412341_basichealth16.html\">The Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a>: About as many people are on the wait list for Washington&#8217;s Basic Health plan, a state-run, low-cost health insurance program, as are currently enrolled. &#8220;As of Monday, 78,834 people were enrolled in Basic Health, the state&#8217;s low-cost health care coverage program. An estimated 78,419 people were on the wait list.&#8221; But, recent budget cuts mean the program is trying to thin out it rolls, not take on new customers. The economic recession has increased demand for the cash-strapped plan, local experts said (Ho, 11\/16). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khi.org\/s\/index.cfm?aid=2557\">Kansas Health Institute<\/a>: A state insurance program has struggled to enroll patients as the number of uninsured children in the state rose, even as it declined nationally. &#8220;Between 2005 and 2008, the number of uninsured children in the state increased about 20,000 to a total of about 70,000 according to a recent report released by Kansas Action for Children.&#8221; State officials acknowledge that flaws in the enrollment system for HealthWave, a state-run insurer for low-to-modest-income children and families, may contribute to the surge (Ranney, 11\/16).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/jWC-WB80mgQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in\u00a0Washington state and Kansas are working to get residents out of or\u00a0into their state-run insurance programs. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: About as many people are on the wait list for Washington&#8217;s Basic Health plan, a state-run, low-cost health insurance program, as are currently enrolled. &#8220;As of Monday, 78,834 people were enrolled in Basic Health, the [&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-43336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43336","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=43336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}