{"id":10807,"date":"2010-02-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T02:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:09:12","slug":"february-22-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/23\/february-22-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"February 22 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;At HealthyCA, Dan Weintraub <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthycal.org\/teen-birth-rate-hits-new-low.html\">reports on California&#8217;s decreasing teenage birth rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* More from Dan Weintraub&#8217;s Healthy CA: Medi-Cal is a value choice. Do we want to provide insurance for those under the poverty line or not? Prior to Gov. Davis, we only went to 86% of the poverty line, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthycal.org\/focus-medi-cals-growth.html\">we went to 100%<\/a>. That&#8217;s hardly a huge committment to the people of California. It requires that a family of four earn preposterously low incomes. Yet, those changes did create a surge in Medi-Cal recipients.<\/p>\n<p>* Poizner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14449212?source=rss\">plays populist<\/a> by going after Anthem Blue Cross.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The California Young Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/02\/california-youn.html\">voted overwhelmingly to endorse Steve Poizner<\/a> for governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;At HealthyCA, Dan Weintraub <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthycal.org\/teen-birth-rate-hits-new-low.html\">reports on California&#8217;s decreasing teenage birth rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* More from Dan Weintraub&#8217;s Healthy CA: Medi-Cal is a value choice. Do we want to provide insurance for those under the poverty line or not? Prior to Gov. Davis, we only went to 86% of the poverty line, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthycal.org\/focus-medi-cals-growth.html\">we went to 100%<\/a>. That&#8217;s hardly a huge committment to the people of California. It requires that a family of four earn preposterously low incomes. Yet, those changes did create a surge in Medi-Cal recipients.<\/p>\n<p>* Poizner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14449212?source=rss\">plays populist<\/a> by going after Anthem Blue Cross.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The California Young Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/02\/california-youn.html\">voted overwhelmingly to endorse Steve Poizner<\/a> for governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Oj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}