{"id":1577,"date":"2014-02-07T05:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2014-02-07T05:34:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T13:34:45","slug":"as-health-care-deadline-nears-white-house-and-allies-scramble-to-enrol-the-young-and-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/07\/as-health-care-deadline-nears-white-house-and-allies-scramble-to-enrol-the-young-and-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"As health care deadline nears, White House and allies scramble to enrol the young and healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014An army of workers and volunteers has fanned out around the country trying to enrol young and healthy people in health insurance now available through President Barack Obama\u2019s signature law.<\/p>\n<p>Run largely by groups with close ties to the White House, the on-the-ground effort is based in part on lessons learned from Obama\u2019s two presidential bids, which revolutionized the way campaigns tracked and targeted voters.<\/p>\n<p>More than any other group, participation from the so-called young invincibles will be crucial to the health law\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that about 40 per cent of those who enrol need to be young and healthy to balance the higher costs of insuring older, sicker people.<\/p>\n<p>With less than two months until the sign-up deadline, the Obama administration is lagging behind its goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014An army of workers and volunteers has fanned out around the country trying to enrol young and healthy people in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-w","mauthors-julie-pace","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}