{"id":106520,"date":"2021-09-01T15:14:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106520"},"modified":"2021-09-01T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:15:31","slug":"the-trouble-with-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106520","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Health Insurance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106520\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=106520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-106521 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Health-Insurance-Graphic-1-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Health-Insurance-Graphic-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Health-Insurance-Graphic-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Health-Insurance-Graphic-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Health-Insurance-Graphic-1.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I pay $200 a week for health insurance for my family (Around $10,000 a year). It covers approved medications (it won\u2019t cover certain diabetic supplies for my son) and doctor visits and medical emergencies when they are \u201ctrue\u201d emergencies (I.e., life or death). I went to the urgent care in March because my blood pressure was 188\/128 and I had a headache. They sent me to the ER where they performed scans and gave me a prescription for blood pressure meds. Because I wasn\u2019t having a stroke or a heart attack, it was considered a non-emergency. Now I\u2019m paying $`133 a month for the next 30 months to cover that visit. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among the 11 most wealthy countries in the world, The Guardian reports that America is dead last. The rankings were evaluated across five areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity and healthcare outcomes. What America ranks highest on is infant, maternal, and avoidable mortalities.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of young diabetics shorting themselves insulin to try to make it stretch are rampant. The average price to combat cancer in the US is $150,000. The cost of a hospital stay in America is around $2,600 per day. The average price for generic EpiPens is almost $200. Our insurances are picky about what they pay for and what they stick you with. Even a \u201cwell\u201d insured person can quickly wind up in medical debt.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong I pay $200 a week for health insurance for my family (Around $10,000 a year). It covers approved medications (it won\u2019t cover certain diabetic supplies for my son) and doctor visits and medical emergencies when they are \u201ctrue\u201d emergencies (I.e., life or death). I went to the urgent care in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22247,18030],"tags":[27320],"class_list":["post-106520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-columns","category-world-news","tag-the-trouble-with-health-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106520"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}