{"id":1411,"date":"2011-03-16T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:15:08","slug":"the-affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-affordable-care-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Affordable-Health-Insurance-plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1412\" title=\"health plan\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Affordable-Health-Insurance-plan-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Affordable-Health-Insurance-plan-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Affordable-Health-Insurance-plan-342x241.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Affordable-Health-Insurance-plan.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the year 2010 many people lost their health coverage because their  premiums were raised. The numbers went up from 50.7 million to 54.2  million uninsured people. Even through this, however, insurance  companies were still making a large profit. This was possible because of  the medical loss ratio, which basically compared the money they were  spending to the money they were making.<\/p>\n<p>Every insurance policy is different, and because of this it is hard to  see where and how much health coverage is being reduced. One thing is  known, however, insurance companies are spending money and then telling  their policy holders that they cannot spend money on things such as  mammograms.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama wants to enforce his Affordable Care Act, which will  protect people against the health insurance companies. The companies may  even owe their customers rebate money. This is possible if Republicans  do not stop the Act from taking place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year 2010 many people lost their health coverage because their premiums were raised. The numbers went up from 50.7 million to 54.2 million uninsured people. Even through this, however, insurance companies were still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[790,110],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-affordable-health-care-plan","tag-obama-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1415,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}