{"id":706002,"date":"2010-03-31T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011493348_jumpinghealthpremiumsforyoungadults.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-31T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T22:52:05","slug":"jumping-health-premiums-for-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706002","title":{"rendered":"Jumping health premiums for young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Illness will sneak up on you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>Carla Johnson\u2019s story [\u201cYoung adults will see health premiums jump,\u201d news, March 30] has an interesting perspective on insurance. She writes about a man, 24, who pays for health insurance, but, \u201che\u2019s healthy and so far hasn\u2019t needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is like saying someone pays for fire insurance but hasn\u2019t had a fire, so he hasn\u2019t needed the insurance. It is a fundamentally flawed perspective on insurance. I can assure young people illness and injury come upon you fast\u2014you will not get a warning.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 David L. South, Redmond<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illness will sneak up on you Editor, The Times: Carla Johnson\u2019s story [\u201cYoung adults will see health premiums jump,\u201d news, March 30] has an interesting perspective on insurance. She writes about a man, 24, who pays for health insurance, but, \u201che\u2019s healthy and so far hasn\u2019t needed it.\u201d This is like saying someone pays for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-706002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XF8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706002","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\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}