{"id":2700,"date":"2009-09-14T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2009-09-14T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:39:29","slug":"preexisting-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/preexisting-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Preexisting conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats (and some Republicans) regularly bash health insurance companies for not covering preexisting conditions.\u00a0 But isn\u2019t that like expecting a home insurance company to write a policy for fire after your house has already burned down?\u00a0 Health insurance seems to have become something other than real insurance\u2014no longer a bet by both parties on an uncertain future catastrophe but simply a means for paying for a service that the insured is guaranteed to use.\u00a0 Of course absolving insurance companies from paying for known serious chronic conditions throws us onto the public option, not a solution to be welcomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats (and some Republicans) regularly bash health insurance companies for not covering preexisting conditions.\u00a0 But isn\u2019t that like expecting a home insurance company to write a policy for fire after your house has already burned down?\u00a0 Health insurance seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/preexisting-conditions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}