{"id":157169,"date":"2026-09-02T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/02\/escalating-u-s-health-costs-a-growing-safety-net-medicare-reforms-and-cms-rejecting-arkansas-medicaid-expansion-waiver-paragoninstitute-org\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:30:29","slug":"escalating-u-s-health-costs-a-growing-safety-net-medicare-reforms-and-cms-rejecting-arkansas-medicaid-expansion-waiver-paragoninstitute-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/09\/02\/escalating-u-s-health-costs-a-growing-safety-net-medicare-reforms-and-cms-rejecting-arkansas-medicaid-expansion-waiver-paragoninstitute-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Escalating U.S. Health Costs, a Growing Safety Net, Medicare Reforms, and CMS Rejecting Arkansas\u2019 Medicaid Expansion Waiver &#8211; paragoninstitute.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi8AFBVV95cUxPSTc3X2xxdEpXYk9vNDF4YWVKOElzM09pWDNKZU5kUk5LajVwdDhYRklTalEzdHN6QU1ZNDdUQ0VQQ0FwSjdhX1JWbmswaU5uMVl5VDJrZ1l5bDZCZWN4VnF0Y2JRM0NVUHdVVGNfRV9McFNfZVFacDVmOUlMZ0tsMWc5X3hDZkk4c2pJRXpXUDhIandaVXdjVWlhOU5XOVdNa3BUbnkwSWN2YW9WUjR6bFJiV2YxdFI4YVdLbHdZNE81bUdLWXZWenJKZ0hMQkI5cXE0SlpFcS1qZGZmUThnS2dEOXN1Nmstb0JPTnAzQnk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Escalating U.S. Health Costs, a Growing Safety Net, Medicare Reforms, and CMS Rejecting Arkansas\u2019 Medicaid Expansion Waiver<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">paragoninstitute.org<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escalating U.S. Health Costs, a Growing Safety Net, Medicare Reforms, and CMS Rejecting Arkansas\u2019 Medicaid Expansion Waiver&nbsp;&nbsp;paragoninstitute.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}