{"id":1548,"date":"2013-05-07T06:58:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2013-05-07T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:41:43","slug":"reforming-auto-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Reforming Auto Insurance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MLMG066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1549\" alt=\"Reforming Auto Insurance\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MLMG066.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MLMG066.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MLMG066-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gdata.com\/?art=\/2013\/05\/MLMG066.jpg&amp;name=Reforming Auto Insurance...\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/buy.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News<br \/>\n<\/em>May 5, 2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I didn&#8217;t want to do a cartoon about the bill in the Michigan legislature that proposes to reform Michigan&#8217;s automobile insurance laws. Even though it affects me and my family directly, I find it, well, boring. But I decided it was certainly relevant and I should do some research. As I was reading <a title=\"michigan_catastrophic_claims\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/business\/index.ssf\/2013\/03\/michigan_catastrophic_claims_a.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, my eyes glazed over when I read the quote from the\u00a0insurance\u00a0industry spokesperson. I woke up enough to realize, &#8220;This is exactly the problem. These guys depend on knocking me out with their insurance-speak so I don&#8217;t realize the money they&#8217;re taking out of my back pocket.&#8221; It&#8217;s kinda like free drinks in a casino. So I lifted the quote word-for-word and used it in Panels 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My new favorite defense for anything is &#8220;much of the information is available online.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News May 5, 2013 I didn&#8217;t want to do a cartoon about the bill in the Michigan legislature that proposes to reform Michigan&#8217;s automobile insurance laws. Even though it affects me and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlive-media-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}