{"id":59,"date":"2012-08-01T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-08-07T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:18:12","slug":"benefits-come-at-no-cost-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Benefits come at no cost? Not really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching Rachel Maddow this evening after watching the USA win a bunch of medals. She was making a lot of good points about all of the new benefits that &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; gives insureds. However, she made one point that I disagree with. She stated that the benefits that come covered 100% first dollar are at no cost, that they are free.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is wrong. I work very hard for my benefits, including my insurance. Every premium dollar paid is reimbursement for my contributing to the total net income of the company I work for. Because of that, I get a salary and a health insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t say that the preventive care that &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; requires to be covered 100% first dollar is &#8220;free&#8221;. It helps to propagate the Conservative narrative that people are getting stuff &#8220;for free&#8221;. Of course it isn&#8217;t free. We pay for it with our labor and should demand to get what we pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching Rachel Maddow this evening after watching the USA win a bunch of medals. She was making a lot of good points about all of the new benefits that &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; gives insureds. However, she made one point that I disagree with. She stated that the benefits that come covered 100% first dollar are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ts27-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liberaldan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}