{"id":4751,"date":"2009-07-20T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/guv-concerned-about-cost-of-health-care-reform\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:04:00","slug":"guv-concerned-about-cost-of-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/guv-concerned-about-cost-of-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv concerned about cost of health-care reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SmSHyO1czZI\/AAAAAAAAL98\/8aGPt_lAEsY\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SmSHyO1czZI\/AAAAAAAAL98\/8aGPt_lAEsY\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360558753523223954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dominating a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association was discussion about the health-care reform proposal being debated by Congress, with governors including New Mexico\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> expressing concern about unfunded mandates, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/20\/health\/policy\/20health.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span>The governors expressed fear \u201cthat Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them,\u201d the Times article states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m personally very concerned about the cost issue, particularly the $1 trillion figures being batted around,\u201d Richardson was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominating a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association was discussion about the health-care reform proposal being debated by Congress, with governors including New Mexico\u2019s Bill Richardson expressing concern about unfunded mandates, according to the New York Times. The governors expressed fear \u201cthat Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}