{"id":3250,"date":"2019-05-31T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:51:25","slug":"neville-whitmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Neville Whitmer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JPA190.jpg\" alt=\"Neville Whitmer\" class=\"wp-image-3251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JPA190.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/JPA190-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is lots that \nis unfair about comparing Governor Whitmer and the recent auto insurance\n reform agreement to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the Munich \nAgreement of 1938. So let&#8217;s start with what <strong>is<\/strong> fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does feel a lot \nlike appeasement. What the majority of Michiganders want and want now is\n lower auto insurance rates. In fact, we wanted to pay less yesterday \n(and several years of yesterdays before that). Which is why the \nlegislature and governor felt increasing pressure to do something. So \nthey did, and I will be delighted to pay less money. But I don&#8217;t have \nconfidence that the reform properly addresses the systemic issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, it felt \nrushed. I know our government can be, by its nature, arcane and \nsometimes that is simply how the sausage is made. But that makes hearing\n &#8220;don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;ll like&#8221; just that much more suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so what isn&#8217;t\n fair is that there is no singular Nazi Germany villain here. I don&#8217;t \nthink the insurance companies, the medical providers, the trial lawyers \n(and the lawmakers they lobby) are inherently evil. They just all have \nvested interests that, in many cases, work against lower insurance \ncosts. So to that end, we all need to be careful not to declare this \nreform package as any sort of final victory but part of the continuing \nbattle to make auto insurance affordable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, I take \nback what I said about villains. I think the true inherent evil here is \nour healthcare system. We should neither be forced to pay for Personal \nInjury Protection as part of auto insurance or have to decide what level\n we may like. The care we get after a catastrophic accident shouldn&#8217;t \nhave anything to do with being in a car. Doesn&#8217;t matter how it happened,\n we all deserve decent, quality care. And without bankrupting us or our \nfamily. That&#8217;s the level of insurance reform we need to aspire to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is lots that is unfair about comparing Governor Whitmer and the recent auto insurance reform agreement to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the Munich Agreement of 1938. So let&#8217;s start with what is fair. It does feel a lot like appeasement. What the majority of Michiganders want and want now is lower auto insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrewheller-com","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","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=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}