{"id":39754,"date":"2013-11-18T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/getting-the-aca-to-work.html"},"modified":"2013-11-18T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:07:22","slug":"getting-the-aca-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/getting-the-aca-to-work.html","title":{"rendered":"Getting the ACA to work"},"content":{"rendered":"
Three governors write about how the ACA is working in their state.<\/p>\n

'People keep asking us why our states have been successful. Here\u2019s a hint: It\u2019s not about our Web sites.<\/i><\/p>\n

Sure, having functioning Web sites for our health-care exchanges makes the job of meeting the enormous demand for affordable coverage much easier, but each of our state Web sites has had its share of technical glitches. As we have demonstrated on a near-daily basis, Web sites can continually be improved to meet consumers\u2019 needs.<\/i><\/p>\n

The Affordable Care Act has been successful in our states because our political and community leaders grasped the importance of expanding health-care coverage and have avoided the temptation to use health-care reform as a political football.'<\/i><\/div>\n

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How we got Obamacare to work<\/a>
\n Leaders put the people \u2014 not politics \u2014 first.\n <\/p>\n

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Three governors write about how the ACA is working in their state. 'People keep asking us why our states have been successful. Here\u2019s a hint: It\u2019s not about our Web sites. Sure, having functioning Web sites for our health-care exchanges makes the job of meeting the enormous demand for affordable coverage much easier, but each … Continue reading “Getting the ACA to work”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28464,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/bill-armstrong-is-a-dolt-3-wrongs-1-right-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":39754,"position":0},"title":"Bill Armstrong is a Dolt (3 Wrongs, 1 Right Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jul-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Bill -- can I call you Bill, like you were called while in the Senate, rather than your current, rather grim, \"William L. 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