{"id":362545,"date":"2022-02-21T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=362545"},"modified":"2022-02-21T06:05:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:05:43","slug":"kilili-biden-enacted-law-to-protect-those-who-rely-on-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kilili-biden-enacted-law-to-protect-those-who-rely-on-medicaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilili: Biden enacted law to protect those who depend on Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joseph Biden Jr. signed into law yesterday a bill that to protect the thousands of individuals in the Marianas who depend on Medicaid for their health care insurance, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (Ind-MP).<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said in his e-kilili newsletter that H.R. 6617, a continuing resolution, extends the 17% local match rate for Marianas Medicaid through March 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360266\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gregorio-Kilili-Sablan-headshot-PW-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-360266\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe first set the Marianas matching rate at 17%\u2014the lowest in the nation\u2014in Public Law 116-94 two years ago,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>Without yesterday\u2019s extension, the Commonwealth\u2019s cost share would have reverted back to 45% and put at risk those insured by Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan led the effort by insular area representatives to make sure the favorable 17% rate did not fall through the legislative cracks when this third continuing resolution for fiscal year 2022 was negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 38,000 people in the Marianas who depend on Medicaid for their health care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joseph Biden Jr. signed into law yesterday a bill that to protect the thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":360267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23773],"class_list":["post-362545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}