{"id":640,"date":"2005-11-05T23:49:50","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T04:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/11\/05\/640\/"},"modified":"2005-11-05T23:49:50","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T04:49:50","slug":"health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/11\/05\/health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something that&#8217;s been on my mind recently, as we deal with switching plans to Bob&#8217;s new work and attempting to find a financially reasonable alternative.  (Long and stupid story, but essentially, his workplace is small, and they only have individual and family plans.  This didn&#8217;t surprise me, as my old work had this problem too.  Individual is fully covered, but family costs extra. He was quoted a number that sounded reasonable for the extra, but one which proved to be wrong.   So while I should be entitled to insurance through my work, there&#8217;s some kind of political mumbo jumbo going on there with the town and the board of trustees, so it&#8217;s hard to say when that will be resolved.)<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts, meanwhile, has been debating a new law that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2005\/11\/05\/healthcare_myths_realities\/\">require &#8220;coverage&#8221;<\/a>.   But as you can see, I put &#8220;coverage&#8221; in quotes, and for a reason.  The plans they&#8217;re proposing as adequate are not.  To put it simply, they&#8217;re crap, and anyone forced to take one is really just throwing their money down a hole.  If they really get sick, the insurance will not save them from financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>And though neither of us is currently employed in MA, they are very nearby, and what they do affects us.   So I am concerned, especially since the legislature seems primed to pass this.  I wonder if they&#8217;d be so eager if that was the health care package <i>they<\/i> were going to have to get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something that&#8217;s been on my mind recently, as we deal with switching plans to Bob&#8217;s new work and attempting to find a financially reasonable alternative. (Long and stupid story, but essentially, his workplace is small, and they only have individual and family plans. This didn&#8217;t surprise me, as my old work had this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}