{"id":778,"date":"2008-05-27T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2008-05-27T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T18:14:00","slug":"amnews-june-2-2008-individual-health-insurance-are-mandates-ready-for-prime-time-american-medical-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"AMNews: June 2, 2008. Individual health insurance: Are mandates ready for prime time? &#8230; American Medical News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/amednews\/2008\/06\/02\/gvsa0602.htm\">AMNews: June 2, 2008. Individual health insurance: Are mandates ready for prime time? &#8230; American Medical News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last fall, Laura Allen didn&#8217;t think Massachusetts&#8217; law requiring everyone to have health insurance would affect her life. She had a customer service job at a rubber stamp company that provided coverage.<\/p>\n<p>But then the 42-year-old Easton, Mass., resident was told she would be laid off before the end of the year. And the new state law imposed a $200 tax penalty on anyone uninsured on Dec. 31, 2007.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>An overview of mandated insurance coverage from Massachusetts to California to the Federal proposal.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>But scrolll way down for the public opinion table showing 68% support for mandated insurance:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The majority of Americans favor the concept of requiring everyone to have health insurance, with government help for those who can&#8217;t afford it, according to a June-October 2007 poll of 3,500 adults.<br \/>Strongly favor 40%<br \/>Somewhat favor 28%<br \/>Somewhat oppose 12%<br \/>Strongly oppose 13%<br \/>Don&#8217;t know\/refused to answer 7%<\/p>\n<p>Source: Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMNews: June 2, 2008. Individual health insurance: Are mandates ready for prime time? &#8230; American Medical News: &#8220;Last fall, Laura Allen didn&#8217;t think Massachusetts&#8217; law requiring everyone to have health &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AMNews: June 2, 2008. Individual health insurance: Are mandates ready for prime time? &#8230; American Medical News&#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":[49,9,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mandating-insurance","category-public-opinion","category-single-payer-health-care-state-efforts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}