{"id":13110,"date":"2010-09-07T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2010-09-07T07:38:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:38:06","slug":"the-dayton-dust-bowl-killing-off-the-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13110","title":{"rendered":"The Dayton Dust Bowl: Killing Off The Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a teacher who happens to get sick in the first year of the Dayton\/ Education Minnesota Health Insurance Pool, good luck making a claim.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4952020177_a626ccd1ff_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Health Insurance Pool that Dayton wants to start for Education Minnesota&#8217;s health insurance is, curiously, exempt from the startup balance requirements that affect <em>every other insurance plan<\/em> that operates in Minnesota. \u00a0The plan could literally go bankrupt in the first year.<\/p>\n<p>In the private market, this would be&#8230;well, illegal, since regular insurance plans need to have startup reserves. \u00a0Since this is a Teachers Union things, it&#8217;d basically give Dayton the grounds for another deficit-boosting state bailout.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning more spending.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning more taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the legislature in a post-Tea-Party, mid-Obamadescenscion era would pony up.<\/p>\n<p>Sound good, teachers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up at 7AM: \u00a0Why Does Dayton Hate Small Business People?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markdayton.org\/mainsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DaytonDeficitSolution.pdf\">Check out the Dayton Budget &#8220;Plan&#8221; for yourself<\/a>! \u00a0Find another howler? \u00a0Leave it in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a teacher who happens to get sick in the first year of the Dayton\/ Education Minnesota Health Insurance Pool, good luck making a claim. The new Health Insurance Pool that Dayton wants to start for Education Minnesota&#8217;s health insurance is, curiously, exempt from the startup balance requirements that affect every other insurance plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13214,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}