{"id":1433,"date":"2013-07-25T19:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T23:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/07\/25\/the-health-care-debate-at-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:39:13","slug":"the-health-care-debate-at-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-health-care-debate-at-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"The health care debate at Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7328\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healthcare-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7328\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7328 lazyload\" title=\"healthcare-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/healthcare-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/161;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The South Carolina General Assembly has gone home for the year, but the fight over Medicaid expansion\u2014a major building block of the federal Affordable Care Act and one of the most contested issues of the legislative session\u2014is far from finished. On July 24, Thornton Kirby, president of the South Carolina Hospital Association, and Tony Keck, director of the state\u2019s Medicaid agency, debated the topic at Furman, which is hosting a four-part health care lecture series this summer. The <em>Charleston Post and Courier<\/em> reported on the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20130724\/PC1610\/130729652\/1009\/medicaid-expansion-debate-rages-on-in-upstate-during-furman-university-health-care-series&amp;source=RSS\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina General Assembly has gone home for the year, but the fight over Medicaid expansion\u2014a major building block of the federal Affordable Care Act and one of the most contested issues of the legislative session\u2014is far from finished. On July 24, Thornton Kirby, president of the South Carolina Hospital Association, and Tony Keck, director of the state\u2019s Medicaid agency, debated the topic at Furman, which is hosting a four-part health care lecture series this summer. The\u00a0<em>Charleston Post and Courier<\/em> reported on the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}