{"id":2054,"date":"2024-06-03T18:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:32:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:32:03","slug":"delays-denials-debt-and-the-growing-privatization-of-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/2024\/06\/03\/delays-denials-debt-and-the-growing-privatization-of-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays, denials, debt and the growing privatization of Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt just felt so cruel,\u201d added Megan. \u201cLike they weren\u2019t thinking of my dad as a person, they were just thinking about him in terms of profit or dollars and cents.\u201d Megan Bent<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous and disgusting that an insurance company has the power to tell my doctor: \u2018No, you can\u2019t give that patient that, no, you can\u2019t have that drug that might help you live,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s disgusting that we allow it, and insurance companies do nothing to increase positive outcomes in healthcare. Nothing. All they are is a middleman who gets to make a shit ton of money off of us.\u201d Jenn Coffey<\/p>\n

Continue Reading article by Michael Sainato on The Guardian<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cIt just felt so cruel,\u201d added Megan. \u201cLike they weren\u2019t thinking of my dad as a person, they were just thinking about him in terms of profit or dollars and cents.\u201d Megan Bent \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous and disgusting that an insurance company has the power to tell my doctor: \u2018No, you can\u2019t give that patient that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenncoffey.com\/jc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}