{"id":96692,"date":"2016-06-15T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/15\/fortunately-i-have-insurance-for-this-to-be\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T00:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T00:40:19","slug":"fortunately-i-have-insurance-for-this-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/15\/fortunately-i-have-insurance-for-this-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-96692 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/15\/fortunately-i-have-insurance-for-this-to-be\/attachment\/96693\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8twofqytO1rftii4o1_r2_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8twofqytO1rftii4o1_r2_540-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/tumblr_o8twofqytO1rftii4o1_r2_540-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Fortunately I have insurance for this to be submitted to, so it won\u2019t be that bad (probably just my $320 ER copay), but this is two of the bills for my short ER visit. The remaining balance in the bottom one is $2818.15, from an original cost of $4698.59 Theres another bill around here for $50.<\/p>\n<p>And I was a walk in. So luckily no ambulance charges.<\/p>\n<p>This is why people without insurance\/without good insurance in American don\u2019t seek care. Because these are the kinds of bills they get.<\/p>\n<p>And keep in mind, we pay for our healthcare out of our paychecks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately I have insurance for this to be submitted to, so it won\u2019t be that bad (probably just my $320 ER copay), but this is two of the bills for my short ER visit. The remaining balance in the bottom one is $2818.15, from an original cost of $4698.59 Theres another bill around here for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/15\/fortunately-i-have-insurance-for-this-to-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[888],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96694,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96692\/revisions\/96694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}