{"id":584,"date":"2005-05-11T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T02:14:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T06:14:30","slug":"one-more-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/one-more-thing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One more thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Another comment I had after the AR result yesterday is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty sad commentary on the healthcare system in this country when people have to go on a reality show to afford infertility treatments.  I&#8217;m not really going to get into this subject deeply, but&#8230; while I agree that most cosmetic medical treatments should be paid for out of pocket, ART is not really cosmetic.  Reproduction may not be essential to keeping someone alive, but it&#8217;s a pretty basic human function, and if someone needs help with it, I think the insurance ought to cover it.  Or if that&#8217;s impossible for some reason, it ought to be realistically affordable.  A cycle of IVF is about 3x as expensive in the US as it is in some other countries.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another comment I had after the AR result yesterday is&#8230; It&#8217;s a pretty sad commentary on the healthcare system in this country when people have to go on a reality show to afford infertility treatments. I&#8217;m not really going to get into this subject deeply, but&#8230; while I agree that most cosmetic medical treatments should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}