{"id":16567,"date":"2026-03-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/19\/if-states-ban-fluoride-more-kids-will-get-cavities-and-medicaid-costs-could-soar-study-finds-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:00:00","slug":"if-states-ban-fluoride-more-kids-will-get-cavities-and-medicaid-costs-could-soar-study-finds-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/19\/if-states-ban-fluoride-more-kids-will-get-cavities-and-medicaid-costs-could-soar-study-finds-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"If states ban fluoride, more kids will get cavities and Medicaid costs could soar, study finds &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxQSTJTUHhCblVIWHRlNDBFYnlYWEVTZXN3NmVXNmJrbmZYRHhXVTJYelpfS01qYk1vcU5LV0Yxemwta21JZldzdTdwRjlNcXhuU2ZJemp4U0FLQ3FvNUEzSDdzeEJCNVZPNVNaM0tpY0ZtQkt4MWd3RUUwbkpfcnZnTmJyeDJVbUw2UF9fNjl1UnBYUjVwZ1Q3SGZxamxJdXJaeW00ZW5NRUlLS3dZcHp3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">If states ban fluoride, more kids will get cavities and Medicaid costs could soar, study finds<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">NBC News<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If states ban fluoride, more kids will get cavities and Medicaid costs could soar, study finds&nbsp;&nbsp;NBC News<\/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-16567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567","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=16567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}