{"id":10505,"date":"2009-01-03T21:40:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/health_care_gap_job_losses_leaving_more_people_without_coverage\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T21:40:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T21:40:31","slug":"health_care_gap_job_losses_leaving_more_people_without_coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10505","title":{"rendered":"Health care gap: Job losses leaving more people without coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Barlett sees the cracks everyday. As a supervisor for MedAssist, a third-party recovery company that contracts with Trident Health System, her job is to try to fill the gaps.<\/p>\n<p>She scours Medicaid, Medicare, charities and long-term payment plans to help uninsured people find ways to pay their medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>In one family Barlett is counseling, the wife lost her job, and also the health insurance that covered her and her husband. The couple tried to go it alone, becoming self-employed, but when he fell gravely ill, they had to close the business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No health insurance. No money,&#8221; Barlett said. They&#8217;re waiting to hear from Medicaid and Social Security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2009\/jan\/03\/health_care_gap67169\">Read it all from the front page of the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Barlett sees the cracks everyday. As a supervisor for MedAssist, a third-party recovery company that contracts with Trident Health System, her job is to try to fill the gaps. She scours Medicaid, Medicare, charities and long-term payment plans to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10505\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,149,104,597,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}