{"id":505036,"date":"2010-04-02T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=34259"},"modified":"2010-04-02T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T15:39:32","slug":"one-line-in-obamacare-could-open-states-to-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505036","title":{"rendered":"One line in ObamaCare could open states to lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>Via <em>The Daily Caller<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The addition to existing law of five words, and a comma, may cause a world of hurt to state governments.<\/p>\n<p>Tucked away on page 466 of President Obama&#8217;s 2,704-page <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.senate.gov\/reform\/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf\" >health-care bill<\/a> is a provision that changes the definition of &#8220;medical assistance,&#8221; the term describing what states are required to provide to Medicaid recipients.<\/p>\n<p>States have in the past been required to provide payment for services to physicians. Now, under the new definition, states will be liable for ensuring provision of &#8220;the care and services themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, states are legally on the hook not only to ensure that Medicaid recipients are paid for, but that they&#8217;re seen by a doctor&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/04\/02\/states-fear-that-five-words-in-obama-health-law-will-open-door-to-lawsuits\/#ixzz0jxQu8yrB\" >Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes Via The Daily Caller: The addition to existing law of five words, and a comma, may cause a world of hurt to state governments. Tucked away on page 466 of President Obama&#8217;s 2,704-page health-care bill is a provision that changes the definition of &#8220;medical assistance,&#8221; the term describing what states are required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505036","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\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}