{"id":81194,"date":"2013-05-27T03:55:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T07:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/maine-health-care-agency-to-phase-out-of-business.php"},"modified":"2013-05-27T03:55:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T07:55:23","slug":"maine-health-care-agency-to-phase-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/maine-health-care-agency-to-phase-out-of-business.php","title":{"rendered":"Maine health care agency to phase out of business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>        AUGUSTA, Maine  The Dirigo Health insurance program,        established with great fanfare a decade ago as a nationally        pioneering program to cover the uninsured, is phasing out        of business.      <\/p>\n<p>        Once seen as a leap toward universal health care in Maine,        Dirigo was a centerpiece of former governor John Baldaccis        agenda and was created with bipartisan support.      <\/p>\n<p>        But the program bumped and lurched on unstable financial        underpinnings and never lived up to its full expectations.        In 2010, as Republicans gained control of state government,        detractors vowed that Dirigo will be diri-gone. They        kept their promise and voted to end the program at 2013s        end.         Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.      <\/p>\n<p>     Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This    material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or    redistributed.  <\/p>\n<p>    Get the full story with unlimited access to    BostonGlobe.com. Just 99 for 4 weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>    Get Access Now  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boston.com\/c\/35022\/f\/646954\/s\/2c71e2ab\/l\/0L0Sboston0N0Cnews0Clocal0Cmaine0C20A130C0A50C260Cmaine0Ehealth0Ecare0Eagency0Ephase0Eout0Ebusiness0CEs58WD940AoRNFIyAVCvh7I0Cstory0Bhtml\/story01.htm\" title=\"Maine health care agency to phase out of business\">Maine health care agency to phase out of business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> AUGUSTA, Maine The Dirigo Health insurance program, established with great fanfare a decade ago as a nationally pioneering program to cover the uninsured, is phasing out of business.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/maine-health-care-agency-to-phase-out-of-business.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-81194","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\/81194"}],"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=81194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}