{"id":4003,"date":"2023-08-04T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:35:43","slug":"but-can-you-afford-the-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4003","title":{"rendered":"But Can You Afford the Insurance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA405.jpg\" alt=\"But Can You Afford the Insurance?\" class=\"wp-image-4004\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA405.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/JPA405-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On one hand, we have Governor Gretchen Whitmer, state politicians of all stripes, business leaders, educators, and community activists all brooding over Michigan&#8217;s population stagnation and what can be done to keep our youth from moving out of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, we have a state that more or less requires young people to own a reliable automobile to functionally live here and then burdens them with sky-high insurance rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding insult (and potential bankruptcy) to injury, those rates no longer provide protection to survivors of catastrophic crashes, although&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/podcast\/stateside\/2023-07-31\/stateside-podcast-what-the-andary-decision-means-for-auto-no-fault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this week&#8217;s Michigan Supreme Court decision<\/a>&nbsp;did at least protect those injured before the 2019 no-fault reform was put into effect. But that&#8217;s not gonna help young people just starting out in Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s time for the one hand to figure out what the other hand is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one hand, we have Governor Gretchen Whitmer, state politicians of all stripes, business leaders, educators, and community activists all brooding over Michigan&#8217;s population stagnation and what can be done to keep our youth from moving out of state. On the other hand, we have a state that more or less requires young people to [&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-4003","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\/4003","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=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}