{"id":34812,"date":"2009-10-29T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"a5af8cd9-398c-48f5-a5ad-5cfaf98b9810"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:10:08","slug":"fine-print-finance-bill-may-cause-consumer-sticker-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/34812","title":{"rendered":"Fine Print: Finance Bill May Cause Consumer Sticker Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/29\/Premiums.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> staff writer Julie Appleby reports on how the fine print of the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s health bill could impact some lower- and middle-class consumers. Proponents of the\u00a0measure &#8220;say the legislation will limit the amount that lower- and middle-income people must pay for health insurance to a maximum of 12 percent of their incomes. But there&#8217;s a catch: The fine print shows that, over time, the premium costs could rise well beyond those caps. That\u2019s because the cost of coverage would shift from a percentage of income to a percentage of the premium, no matter how high the premiums go&#8221; (10\/29). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/29\/Premiums.aspx\" >Read entire story<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/YDQ_yRoUu8M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby reports on how the fine print of the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s health bill could impact some lower- and middle-class consumers. Proponents of the\u00a0measure &#8220;say the legislation will limit the amount that lower- and middle-income people must pay for health insurance to a maximum of 12 percent of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}