{"id":603997,"date":"2009-10-29T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"a5af8cd9-398c-48f5-a5ad-5cfaf98b9810"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T14:10:08","slug":"fine-print-finance-bill-may-cause-consumer-sticker-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/603997","title":{"rendered":"Fine Print: Finance Bill May Cause Consumer Sticker Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/29\/Premiums.aspx\" >Kaiser Health News<\/a> staff writer Julie Appleby reports on how the fine print of the Senate Finance Committee's health bill could impact some lower- and middle-class consumers. Proponents of the\u00a0measure \"say the legislation will limit the amount that lower- and middle-income people must pay for health insurance to a maximum of 12 percent of their incomes. But there's a catch: The fine print shows that, over time, the premium costs could rise well beyond those caps. That\u2019s because the cost of coverage would shift from a percentage of income to a percentage of the premium, no matter how high the premiums go\" (10\/29). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiserhealthnews.org\/Stories\/2009\/October\/29\/Premiums.aspx\" >Read entire story<\/a>. <br \/><br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/YDQ_yRoUu8M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiser Health News staff writer Julie Appleby reports on how the fine print of the Senate Finance Committee&#8217;s health bill could impact some lower- and middle-class consumers. Proponents of the\u00a0measure &#8220;say the legislation will limit the amount that lower- and middle-income people must pay for health insurance to a maximum of 12 percent of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2x7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}