{"id":855,"date":"2012-06-29T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T13:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:41","slug":"health-care-law-stands-what-it-means-for-ct-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Law Stands: What It Means For CT And You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Magaly Olivero | Jun 28, 2012 11:30 am<br \/>\nThe U.S. Supreme Court decision today upholding the constitutionality of the nation\u2019s health reform law bodes well for Connecticut, where the Affordable Care Act has funneled $192 million in federal funds to implement the law and impacted the lives of millions of residents as of June 2012.<br \/>\nThe 5-4 decision upheld a key component of the law \u2013 the \u201cindividual mandate\u201d that most Americans purchase health insurance or face a penalty by 2014. The justices said the federal government could, under existing tax laws, tax those who do not purchase health insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Magaly Olivero | Jun 28, 2012 11:30 am The U.S. Supreme Court decision today upholding the constitutionality of the nation\u2019s health reform law bodes well for Connecticut, where the <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=855\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[339,338,99,337,340],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-ct-impact-health-care-reform","tag-health-care-reform","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}