{"id":647413,"date":"2013-03-18T19:58:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=363b3bc2e20f157206b7843d6c99caaf"},"modified":"2013-03-18T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:58:45","slug":"affordable-care-act-at-three-consumer-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647413","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Care Act at Three: Consumer Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: This post was first published on the official blog of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\">healthcare.gov<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/anniversary-consumer-protections.html\">You can see the original post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past, too many parents had to worry about how they would pay the mortgage or the car payment if their sick children were dropped from insurance coverage. Victims of breast cancer worried about what would happen to them or their families if they reached a lifetime limit on coverage and no longer could afford treatment.<\/p>\n<p>These were real concerns for real people. Because of the health care law, however, they can put these worries aside and know they are getting a better value for their premium dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/healthreform\">Affordable Care Act<\/a> brings an end to some of the worst insurance industry practices that have kept affordable health coverage out of reach for millions of Americans, especially when they needed it most. Under the health care law, consumers can be confident that their insurance will protect them if they get sick and their families won&rsquo;t be crushed by medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>As we observe the third anniversary of the President signing the health care law, let me tell you what this means in real terms to many American families:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/affordable-care-act-three-consumer-protections\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: This post was first published on the official blog of healthcare.gov. You can see the original post here In the past, too many parents had to worry about how they would pay the mortgage or the car payment if their sick children were dropped from insurance coverage. Victims of breast cancer worried about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647413","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\/7336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}