{"id":6466,"date":"2009-11-19T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:19:50","slug":"the-evil-health-insurance-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6466","title":{"rendered":"The Evil Health Insurance Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

…are not so evil after all.<\/p>\n

The government recently advised that women don’t really need so many mammograms…that it takes 1900 of them to save one life.<\/p>\n

Insurance companies’ reply?<\/p>\n

Don’t worry. You’re covered…<\/p>\n

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Insurance companies contacted by USA TODAY<\/a> say they will continue paying for annual mammograms amid widespread fears that new breast cancer screening guidelines from a federal task force could lead women to lose coverage for those tests.<\/div>\n

The guidelines \u2013 suggesting that most women under 50 don’t need routine mammograms and that women over 50 need them only every other year \u2013 were issued Monday night by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…until the government takes over that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…are not so evil after all. The government recently advised that women don’t really need so many mammograms…that it takes 1900 of them to save one life. Insurance companies’ reply? Don’t worry. You’re covered… Insurance companies contacted by USA TODAY say they will continue paying for annual mammograms amid widespread fears that new breast cancer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}