{"id":131022,"date":"2017-10-17T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131022"},"modified":"2017-10-17T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T19:28:46","slug":"plan-to-extend-federal-payments-to-health-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131022","title":{"rendered":"Plan to extend federal payments to health insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-129569\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Healthcare3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Healthcare3.jpg 180w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Healthcare3-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is expressing support for an agreement struck by two leading lawmakers to extend federal payments to health insurers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke at a news conference in the Rose Garden Tuesday with the Greek Prime Minister. He commented after Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee told reporters that he and a top Democrat have reached an agreement on a plan to extend the federal payments that Trump has blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the White House has been involved in what he calls a &#8220;short-term deal.&#8221; He said he still thinks a system where funding is given to states through federal block grants is the best long-term plan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump is expressing support for an agreement struck by two leading lawmakers to extend federal payments to health insurers. Trump spoke at a news conference in the Rose Garden Tuesday with the Greek Prime Minister. He commented after Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee told reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131023,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131022\/revisions\/131023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}