{"id":3772,"date":"2022-03-18T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2022-03-18T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:02:33","slug":"ignore-that-guy-heres-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3772","title":{"rendered":"Ignore That Guy \u2014 Here&#8217;s $400!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"423\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA334.jpg\" alt=\"Ignore That Guy \u2014 Here's $400!\" class=\"wp-image-3773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA334.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA334-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note: I am going to accept my $400 per insured vehicle refund check from the state unreservedly and with a clear conscience. As should anybody who has been paying (almost certainly overpaying) into the catastrophic injury fund these many, many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way of putting it: Michigan auto owners did not create the harsh mistakes generated by the 2019 no-fault insurance reform law \u2014 the insurance companies and the state government did. And while I don&#8217;t believe cutting off severely injured car crash survivors from their at-home care was anybody&#8217;s specific evil intent, the end result is, well, pretty evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michigan Radio has done a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/politics-government\/2022-03-16\/no-fault-insurance-fix-advocates-meet-with-lawmakers-as-breaking-point-nears\">thorough job reporting on all this<\/a>&nbsp;since the in-home care market started cratering. It&#8217;s not a simple problem to unwind. Frankly, it&#8217;s stupid that we have it in the first place. In a civilized country, those who are severely injured (by auto accident or otherwise) would not be left to fear losing proper, decent, human health care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is where we find ourselves, and our government needs to work with the insurance companies to fix it. Because it&#8217;s literally killing people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: I am going to accept my $400 per insured vehicle refund check from the state unreservedly and with a clear conscience. As should anybody who has been paying (almost certainly overpaying) into the catastrophic injury fund these many, many years. Another way of putting it: Michigan auto owners did not create the harsh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","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=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}