{"id":39679,"date":"2014-03-20T20:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=39679"},"modified":"2014-03-20T20:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:59:05","slug":"healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about new healthcare law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 26<!--more--><br \/>\nAre you confused about the new healthcare law?<br \/>\nYour questions can be answered Wednesday, March 26, from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Clinton County RESA building.<br \/>\nThe Mid-Michigan District Health Department: Clinton Branch and Sparrow Clinton Hospital in St. Johns host this special program designed to help people better understand their health insurance options.<br \/>\nGuest speaker Brett Williams will present general information on the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act and the Healthy Michigan Plan for Medicaid expansion.<br \/>\nWilliams, a former legislative aide to State Representatives Ehardt (R-Lapeer) and Julian (R-Durand), coordinates activities for the Michigan Consumers for Healthcare Coalition in Central Michigan. He has extensively studied the impact the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act will have on consumers, businesses and non-profit organizations. Williams&#8217; presentation removes politics from the conversation, focusing on the actual law and how it affects people.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are holding this event to help answer questions for the general public regarding the new healthcare law,&#8221; says Sara Thelen, Health Educator for the Mid-Michigan District Health Department. &#8220;This program offers a lot of valuable information. We are very lucky to have Brett available to our community as a resource.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Mid-Michigan District Health Department actively participates in outreach and enrollment efforts for the new health insurance marketplace. Those in need of assistance with enrollment can be helped by the department&#8217;s Certified Application Counselors.<br \/>\nFor more information or to register for the March 26 program, call Sara at 989.227.3140.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}