{"id":18869,"date":"2010-03-30T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_health_premiums_may_rise_17_for_young_adults_buying_own_insurance\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:15:32","slug":"ap_health_premiums_may_rise_17_for_young_adults_buying_own_insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18869","title":{"rendered":"AP: Health premiums may rise 17% for young adults buying own insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans\u201d\u201d a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 2014, most Americans will be required to buy insurance or pay a tax penalty. That&#8217;s when premiums for young adults seeking coverage on the individual market would likely climb by 17% on average, or roughly $42 a month, according to an analysis of the plan conducted for The Associated Press. The analysis did not factor in tax credits to help offset the increase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2010-03-29-insurance-premiums_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans\u201d\u201d a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18869\">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":[39,40,149,104,593,139,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-personal-finance","category-the-2010-obama-administration-health-care-bill","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869","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=18869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}