{"id":835,"date":"2008-01-13T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2008-01-13T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T00:29:00","slug":"the-pain-of-health-coverage-philadelphia-inquirer-12-09-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"The Pain of Health Coverage | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12\/09\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/business\/20071209_The_Pain_of_Health_Coverage.html\">The Pain of Health Coverage | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12\/09\/2007<\/a>: &#8220;Frank Manzo keeps doing the math, trying to figure out how he can still offer health insurance to his employees. <br \/>His 28-employee tech-staffing company, Computer Methods Corp., charges clients $35 an hour for help desk workers. He pays them $25 an hour.<br \/>Health insurance premiums proposed for 2008 for a family run nearly $12 an hour &#8211; up 30 percent from last year.<br \/>Forget about profit. Forget about rent on the company&#8217;s Marlton offices, the electric bill, or even paper for the copy machine.<br \/>The middle-class, college-educated people at Manzo&#8217;s company were on the edge of joining America&#8217;s 47 million uninsured.<br \/>&#8216;Where do I find the money?&#8217; Manzo asked, his voice rising in frustration. &#8216;What am I supposed to pay them &#8211; $10 an hour? At this point, they may as well go work for McDonald&#8217;s.&#8217;<br \/>Health insurance makes everyone miserable. But among the most miserable are small-business owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry if this is an old article to you, just appeared in my Pittsburgh paper this Sunday&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pain of Health Coverage | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12\/09\/2007: &#8220;Frank Manzo keeps doing the math, trying to figure out how he can still offer health insurance to his employees. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=835\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pain of Health Coverage | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12\/09\/2007&#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":[27,26,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-insurance-cost","category-private-health-insurance","category-rationing-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}