{"id":1318,"date":"2011-03-12T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-03-16T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T21:04:53","slug":"health-care-compact-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/health-care-compact-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Compact in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1319\" title=\"health\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/apply-health-care-texas-200X200-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Health Care Compact is an agreement between states that moves the  authority, responsibility, and control of funds of health care to the  members of the states. Many influential Texas organizations promote this  agreement, seeking to engage citizens in the development of a state  based health care reform. The Texas Public Policy Foundation developed  this idea using interstate compacts to balance the power between state  and federal governments, this application of The Health Care Compact  filed with the Texas legislature is the first of its kind and will put  the states in control of both health care regulations and federal  funding, allowing the states free to implement any systems they choose  to utilize.<\/p>\n<p>There is a large coalition of prominent Texas organizations from grass  roots to Tea Party members,coming together to push the Health Care  Compact in their state.This system will grant citizens greater influence  over their own health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Care Compact is an agreement between states that moves the authority, responsibility, and control of funds of health care to the members of the states. Many influential Texas organizations promote this agreement, seeking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[748,749],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}