{"id":30782,"date":"2012-02-11T03:14:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T03:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_health_insurers_question_obama_birth_control_plan\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T03:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T03:14:48","slug":"reuters_health_insurers_question_obama_birth_control_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30782","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Health insurers question Obama birth control plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. health insurers said on Friday they feared President Barack Obama had set a new precedent by making them responsible for providing free birth control to employees of religious groups as he sought to defuse an election-year landmine&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are concerned about the precedent this proposed rule would set,&#8221; said Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans, the industry&#8217;s trade group. &#8220;As we learn more about how this rule would be operationalized, we will provide comments through the regulatory process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/10\/usa-contraceptives-aetna-idUSL2E8DAEKD20120210\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. health insurers said on Friday they feared President Barack Obama had set a new precedent by making them responsible for providing free birth control to employees of religious groups as he sought to defuse an election-year landmine&#8230;. &#8220;We are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30782\">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":[39,40,513,589,149,104,114,616,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782","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=30782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}