
{"id":17006,"date":"2011-03-30T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T23:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=17006"},"modified":"2011-03-30T19:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T23:13:19","slug":"affordable-care-act-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/30\/affordable-care-act-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Care Act anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Affordable Care Act celebrated its one-year anniversary last Wednesday with a gathering at Piedmont Health Services. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an occasion worth marking,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Rep. David Price, who calls the act \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the most significant reform in history to our nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health care system.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 37,000 residents gained health insurance eligibility through the act. The provision allows parents to keep children up to age 26 without job-based coverage on their insurance plans. It is also estimated that 539,000 kids are protected by the provision, banning insurance companies from denying coverage to children because of a pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Affordable Care Act celebrated its one-year anniversary last Wednesday with a gathering at Piedmont Health Services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17007,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}