{"id":73881,"date":"2017-04-11T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/how-to-defend-yourself-against-a-broken-health-care-system\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:09:40","slug":"how-to-defend-yourself-against-a-broken-health-care-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/how-to-defend-yourself-against-a-broken-health-care-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Defend Yourself Against A Broken Health Care System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At some basic level, you could say that the problem started with insurance, but that\u2019s not to say that insurance is a bad thing. What those insurance policies did was to separate the payment from the services, and in the early days, we became blind to what was paid because we didn\u2019t pay it ourselves. Up until a couple decades ago, if you had good insurance, your insurer pretty much paid everything. Now, that\u2019s not the case anymore because people have higher co-pays and higher deductibles, and suddenly they\u2019re saying, \u201cWhoa, how did things get so expensive?\u201d This allowed the system to become so costly, because consumers didn\u2019t notice for a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some basic level, you could say that the problem started with insurance, but that\u2019s not to say that insurance is a bad thing. What those insurance policies did was to separate the payment from the services, and in the early days, we became blind to what was paid because we didn\u2019t pay it ourselves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}