{"id":877,"date":"2013-10-15T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T23:54:02","slug":"last-frontier-for-obamacare-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/15\/last-frontier-for-obamacare-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Frontier for Obamacare Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I asked prospective Democrat candidate for governor Hollis French if he, as governor, would enter Alaska in the new Medicaid program. He replied, &#8220;Absolutely, yes.&#8221; (The argument he made is depressingly common among the people here: you spend $28M and the Federal government gives you a $1000M bridge to nowhere.) So Hollis French won&#8217;t be getting my vote next year.<\/p>\n<p>In other Obamacare news, since Alaska doesn&#8217;t have its own exchange for nobody to enroll in, they&#8217;ve all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2013\/10\/14\/3125181\/murkowski-wants-updates-on-insurance.html\">not enrolled in the Federal exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enroll Alaska chief operating officer Tyann Boling confirmed that no one has enrolled as of late last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now things are looking a little bit better this week,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not for sure we&#8217;ve enrolled anybody yet, but things seems to be functioning a little bit better, but as of last week, we had not known of one person that had enrolled in the state of Alaska.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I asked prospective Democrat candidate for governor Hollis French if he, as governor, would enter Alaska in the new Medicaid program. He replied, &#8220;Absolutely, yes.&#8221; (The argument he made is depressingly common among the people here: you spend $28M and the Federal government gives you a $1000M bridge to nowhere.) So Hollis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[474,789,744],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-alaska-2","tag-murkowski","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-e9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}