{"id":4995,"date":"2011-11-01T06:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2011-11-02T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:30:37","slug":"morning-read-1-in-8-north-country-residents-uninsured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/01\/morning-read-1-in-8-north-country-residents-uninsured\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  1 in 8 North Country residents uninsured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111101\/NEWS02\/711019848\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting this morning that 12% of North Country residents lack health coverage &#8211; a rate that&#8217;s actually slightly better than New York and the US as a whole.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rate, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, reflects New  York\u2019s efforts to trim the number of people without insurance by  expanding eligibility for Medicaid and other subsidized health programs,  according to the Healthcare Association of New York State.<\/p>\n<p>It  also may reflect the north country\u2019s relatively high number of people in  government jobs, including people employed at Fort Drum, prisons and  public universities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to one source for the story, Medicaid enrollments have grown rapidly, a process that brings more residents coverage, but also burdens local property tax payers more heavily.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111101\/NEWS02\/711019848\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting this morning that 12% of North Country residents lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}