{"id":45246,"date":"2012-05-23T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/state-could-help-cover-federal-health-care-no-mans-land.php"},"modified":"2012-05-23T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:14:51","slug":"state-could-help-cover-federal-health-care-no-mans-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/state-could-help-cover-federal-health-care-no-mans-land.php","title":{"rendered":"State could help cover federal health care &#39;no-man&#39;s land&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Health Care Reform  by Elizabeth  Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio  <\/p>\n<p>    May 23, 2012  <\/p>\n<p>            Audio player code:            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"minnesota_news_features_2012_05_22_basicplan_20120522_64s_player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"319\" height=\"83\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/www_publicradio\/tools\/media_player\/syndicate.php?name=minnesota\/news\/features\/2012\/05\/22\/basicplan_20120522_64\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>          <\/p>\n<p>    ST. PAUL, Minn.  The primary goal of the federal health care    overhaul is to help provide affordable health insurance to the    millions of Americans who lack it. But health planners are    wrestling with a little known, yet significant gap in the plan.  <\/p>\n<p>    A low-income group under age 65 falls into a kind of no-man's    land for affordable coverage. They earn too much to qualify for    assistance through Medicaid, but not enough to afford even    subsidized commercial insurance.  <\/p>\n<p>    Minnesota officials are considering an optional program to help    fill this gap but there is a huge unknown: how much it will    cost.  <\/p>\n<p>    The affordability gap affects about 100,000 low-income    Minnesotans, people whose household incomes are slightly above    the threshold to qualify for Medicaid's free or low cost    coverage.  <\/p>\n<p>    Yet their incomes are low enough that the deductibles and    co-pays of their private health insurance could cause hardship     even with the federal health care law's subsidies.  <\/p>\n<p>    Many individuals in this predicament earn less than $2,000 a    month.  <\/p>\n<p>    According to the non-profit Kaiser Foundation, their    out-of-pocket costs for the health care overhaul's benchmark    plan could run as high as $220 per month.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2012\/05\/23\/health\/health-care-gap\/?refid=0\" title=\"State could help cover federal health care &#39;no-man&#39;s land&#39;\">State could help cover federal health care &#39;no-man&#39;s land&#39;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Health Care Reform by Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio May 23, 2012 Audio player code: ST. PAUL, Minn.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/state-could-help-cover-federal-health-care-no-mans-land.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}