{"id":4624,"date":"2008-10-02T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2017-11-04T07:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:02:54","slug":"senate-to-vote-on-higher-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/senate-to-vote-on-higher-health-care-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate To Vote On Higher Health Care Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rising bailout bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1008\/14161.html\" target=\"_blank\">raises all boats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate substitute now runs over 450 pages. And tucked away in the tax provisions is a landmark health care provision demanding that insurance companies provide coverage for mental health treatment\u2014such as hospitalization\u2014on parity with physical illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Really a bill onto itself, the mental health parity measure has been a bipartisan priority for top lawmakers in both chambers but has stalled because of disagreements again over how to pay for its estimated $3.8 billion five-year cost. In the current climate, that seems to be no longer a stumbling block, and if the Treasury plan becomes law, it will also. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just spitballing here, but won&#8217;t imposing new services on insurance companies sort of make the insurance companies <i>raise rates<\/i> to cover them?<\/p>\n<p>Leading to a din about the higher costs of health care, leading to more shrieks for <i>government to do something<\/i>, such as national health care plan?<\/p>\n<p>Geez Louise, it&#8217;s almost like that was &#8220;our&#8221; legislators&#8217; goal or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rising bailout bill raises all boats: The Senate substitute now runs over 450 pages. And tucked away in the tax provisions is a landmark health care provision demanding that insurance companies provide coverage for mental health treatment\u2014such as hospitalization\u2014on parity with physical illnesses. Really a bill onto itself, the mental health parity measure has [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17288,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/17288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}