{"id":44,"date":"2014-07-20T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-07-20T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T02:11:00","slug":"they-have-health-insurance-but-may-not-understand-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"They have health insurance but may not understand it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Nine months after Americans began signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a challenging new phase is emerging as confused enrollees clamor for help in understanding their coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Nonprofits across the country are being swamped by consumers with questions. Many are low income, have never had insurance, and have little knowledge of the health-care system. The rampant confusion poses a potential hurdle for the success of the health law: <\/p>\n<p>If many Americans don&#8217;t understand health insurance, that could hurt their ability to use their benefits &#8211; or to keep their coverage altogether. <\/p>\n<p>A federal program to help consumers has also run out of money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/business\/20140720_They_have_health_insurance_but_may_not_understand_it.html\">They have health insurance but may not understand it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; WASHINGTON &#8211; Nine months after Americans began signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a challenging new phase is emerging as confused enrollees clamor for help &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=44\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They have health insurance but may not understand it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-social-determinants-of-health"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}