{"id":191528,"date":"2009-08-06T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/06\/you-do-not-have-health-insurance\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T01:17:00","slug":"you-do-not-have-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/06\/you-do-not-have-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"You Do Not Have Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/2009\/08\/05\/you-do-not-have-health-insurance\/\">says James Kwak<\/a>, and he is completely correct:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8230;That\u2019s not insurance; that\u2019s employer-subsidized health care for the duration of your employment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there is the problem that even if you are nominally covered when you do get sick, your insurer could <a href=\"http:\/\/baselinescenario.com\/2009\/07\/27\/health-insurance-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rescind your policy<\/a>, or you may find out, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1883149,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Tumulty\u2019s brother did<\/a>, that your insurance doesn\u2019t cover the treatment you need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says James Kwak, and he is completely correct: &#8230;That\u2019s not insurance; that\u2019s employer-subsidized health care for the duration of your employment. &#8230; In addition, there is the problem that even if you are nominally covered when you do get sick, your insurer could rescind your policy, or you may find out, as Karen Tumulty\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1046,1045,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}