{"id":196470,"date":"2008-04-24T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/insurer-problems-on-a-much-smaller-and-much-larger-scale\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T05:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:41:00","slug":"insurer-problems-on-a-much-smaller-and-much-larger-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/insurer-problems-on-a-much-smaller-and-much-larger-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurer Problems on a Much Smaller, and Much Larger Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is about health insurance, and obviously these policies, whose payouts typically max out at less than a million dollars, are smaller than the monoliner&#8217;s policies, but this is the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>UnitedHealth Group is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/23\/business\/23health.html?ref=business\">taking a major hit because fewer and fewer employers can afford to buy its product<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The healthcare crisis is real and ongoing, and we are going 90mph towards a brick wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is about health insurance, and obviously these policies, whose payouts typically max out at less than a million dollars, are smaller than the monoliner&#8217;s policies, but this is the tip of the iceberg. UnitedHealth Group is taking a major hit because fewer and fewer employers can afford to buy its product. The healthcare crisis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1046,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-healthcare","category-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196470"}],"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=196470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}