{"id":37081,"date":"2013-07-03T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37081"},"modified":"2013-07-02T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:24:33","slug":"trampling-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37081","title":{"rendered":"Trampling Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-aetna-california-health-insurance-20130618,0,3414612.story\">Aetna <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-unitedhealth-insure-calif-20130702,0,4370321.story\">UHG <\/a>exit the individual health insurance market in California, rather than deal with the mandates in Obamacare&#8217;s California exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The change will affect about 50,000 individual subscribers (which, when you tack on family members, stretches out to around 150,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And and it&#8217;s a sample of what&#8217;s going to happen in most other states, as private insurers, looking at expensive coverage mandates and limited revenue, dump out of the private coverage business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exactly as conservatives said<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He who laughs last laughs loudest &#8211; although this kind of laughing isn&#8217;t that funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aetna and UHG exit the individual health insurance market in California, rather than deal with the mandates in Obamacare&#8217;s California exchange.\u00a0 The change will affect about 50,000 individual subscribers (which, when you tack on family members, stretches out to around 150,000 people.\u00a0 And and it&#8217;s a sample of what&#8217;s going to happen in most other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37081","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=37081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37083,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37081\/revisions\/37083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}