{"id":12261,"date":"2012-12-11T05:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12261"},"modified":"2012-12-11T05:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:38:27","slug":"only-journalists-and-their-readers-are-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/11\/only-journalists-and-their-readers-are-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Journalists and Their Readers Are Surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knew how insurance coverage works expected this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/surprise-new-insurance-fee-in-health-overhaul-law\/article_c860f9fb-65fe-579b-aae0-29662d2fd3a4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Surprise: New insurance fee in health overhaul law<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your medical plan is facing an unexpected new fee. It&#8217;s to help cover people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>The $63-per-head fee \u2014 buried in a recent regulation \u2014will hit health plans serving an estimated 190 million Americans, mostly workers and their families. It&#8217;s payable starting in 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the $63 fee levied by the government doesn&#8217;t cover the actual cost of the new mandates, which is why insurance premiums have already gone up before this fee takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>But baby steps, reporters.  Baby steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who knew how insurance coverage works expected this: Surprise: New insurance fee in health overhaul law Your medical plan is facing an unexpected new fee. It&#8217;s to help cover people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care overhaul. The $63-per-head fee \u2014 buried in a recent regulation \u2014will hit health plans serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12263,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}