{"id":255,"date":"2009-06-11T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-06-11T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:27:41","slug":"seriously-considering-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Considering Health Care Costs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"GRBJ0708.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0708.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"370\" \/><br \/>\nOriginally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, May 18, 2009<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I own a small business. We self-insure for medical costs. Every time we get a medical bill with nothing covered by insurance (which is often) or every time the premium goes up by double-digit percentages (which is always), I feel like we\u2019re being consumed by a crocodile. And what good is having the best medical care system in the world (which I doubt) if nobody can afford it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, May 18, 2009 My wife and I own a small business. We self-insure for medical costs. Every time we get a medical bill with nothing covered by insurance (which is often) or every time the premium goes up by double-digit percentages (which is always), I feel like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}