{"id":60501,"date":"2016-10-03T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60501"},"modified":"2016-10-02T03:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T08:44:24","slug":"this-is-dfl-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60501","title":{"rendered":"This Is DFL Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You, the DFL voter, wanted a government-managed healthcare market? \u00a0You got it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/health-plan-premiums-to-jump-more-than-50-percent-in-minnesota\/395432101\/\">And we&#8217;re all paying for it!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Health insurers are hiking premiums and limiting enrollment in Minnesota\u2019s individual market next year, with regulators saying the emergency measures were needed to avert a market collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">The moves are a clear sign that the market for some 250,000 people who buy coverage for themselves is dysfunctional and needs reform, said Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman during a Friday news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">While rate increases of more than 50 percent aren\u2019t fair to consumers, Rothman said, things could have been worse. He described a period this summer when all health insurers in the state seemed prepared to abandon that segment of the market.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Elections have consequences; as former New York mayor Ed Koch put it, &#8220;the voters have spoken, and now they must accept the consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">It&#8217;d be nice if those consequences didn&#8217;t botch up everyone else&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You, the DFL voter, wanted a government-managed healthcare market? \u00a0You got it! And we&#8217;re all paying for it! Health insurers are hiking premiums and limiting enrollment in Minnesota\u2019s individual market next year, with regulators saying the emergency measures were needed to avert a market collapse. The moves are a clear sign that the market for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mnsure-debacle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501","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=60501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60502,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions\/60502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}