{"id":602,"date":"2008-08-14T04:13:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-08-14T04:13:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T09:13:17","slug":"health-insurance-ala-carte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/health-insurance-ala-carte\/","title":{"rendered":"health insurance ala-carte?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appeal-democrat.com\/articles\/jersey_64714___article.html\/coverage_new.html\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting read from <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Appeal-Democrat from\u00a0Marysville, California<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.housing.uwaterloo.ca\/residences\/village1\/gallery\/photos\/cafeteria.jpg?resize=400%2C276\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026Instead, Sacramento should look to Florida and even New Jersey, which point the way to substantially reducing health insurance costs with a more market-based approach.<br \/>\nThe Florida Legislature unanimously approved allowing insurance companies to sell stripped-down, no-frills policies, exempted from more than 50 state-imposed mandates, including required coverage for acupuncture and chiropractics\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lobbyists for every conceivable health care treatment have persuaded states to require insurers to sell the whole menu or nothing. It&#8217;s estimated that, nationwide, state mandates impose more than 1,900 individual obligations. But Floridians now can <strong>shop cafeteria-style<\/strong>, picking and paying for only the coverage they desire, trimming their costs dramatically and getting only what they deem necessary\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read from Appeal-Democrat from\u00a0Marysville, California \u2026Instead, Sacramento should look to Florida and even New Jersey, which point the way to substantially reducing health insurance costs with a more market-based approach. The Florida Legislature unanimously approved allowing insurance companies to sell stripped-down, no-frills policies, exempted from more than 50 state-imposed mandates, including required coverage for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-9I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}