{"id":4441,"date":"2008-05-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4441"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:01:47","slug":"let-the-failures-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/let-the-failures-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let The Failures Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-run health care in Wisconsin begins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=753685\" target=\"_blank\">denying coverage to the most vulnerable, i.e., expensive, &#8220;clients&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was close to crying in the drugstore,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;I knew there just had to be another recourse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s son was among the 450 children with pre-existing medical conditions who were dropped by the Health Insurance Risk Sharing Plan Authority when BadgerCare Plus was introduced.<\/p>\n<p>Their experience is an example of the often-inescapable complexity of state health programs and the insurance market in general, particularly for families who do not get insurance through an employer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is the solution letting the free market work?  Foolish mortal; the obvious solutions include drug reimportation and spending even more tax money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-run health care in Wisconsin begins denying coverage to the most vulnerable, i.e., expensive, &#8220;clients&#8221;: &#8220;I was close to crying in the drugstore,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;I knew there just had to be another recourse.&#8221; Clark&#8217;s son was among the 450 children with pre-existing medical conditions who were dropped by the Health Insurance Risk Sharing Plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17388,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions\/17388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}