{"id":39997,"date":"2009-11-11T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"86c4d316-4743-435c-a7ba-6f8c4165f633"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:28:00","slug":"south-florida-man-inspires-ians-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39997","title":{"rendered":"South Florida Man Inspires &#8216;Ian&#8217;s Law&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/251\/story\/78607.html\" >McClatchy<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/486\/story\/1325222.html\" >The Miami Herald<\/a> reports on Ian Pearl, a South Florida man born with muscular dystrophy who is drawing\u00a0attention to\u00a0discriminatory health insurance practices against the disabled. Pearl is the &#8220;inspiration for\u00a0&#8216;Ian&#8217;s Law,&#8217; legislation being introduced by two New York state legislators that would require insurance companies to get approval from the state before dropping coverage plans for existing clients.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pearl has &#8220;lived the last 18 years on a ventilator hooked to a tracheal tube. Although the procedure is known for helping those with muscular dystrophy live longer, it can come with a cost: the need for 24-hour medical attention.&#8221; Pearl&#8217;s health insurance, which was\u00a0purchased by his\u00a0father in 1981, covered this\u00a0treatment. &#8220;But Guardian Life Insurance, which is based in New York, notified the Pearls that it was dropping Ian&#8217;s coverage in December as part of a companywide restructuring of its insurance policies. &#8230; With his insurance set to expire in weeks, Pearl and his family mobilized to draw attention to their case&#8221; (Figueroa, 11\/10).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/a-1V-xhiORE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McClatchy\/The Miami Herald reports on Ian Pearl, a South Florida man born with muscular dystrophy who is drawing\u00a0attention to\u00a0discriminatory health insurance practices against the disabled. Pearl is the &#8220;inspiration for\u00a0&#8216;Ian&#8217;s Law,&#8217; legislation being introduced by two New York state legislators that would require insurance companies to get approval from the state before dropping coverage plans [&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-39997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39997","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=39997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}