{"id":37689,"date":"2013-04-06T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_a_great_piece_on_unintended_consequencesthe_affordable_health_care_act_\/"},"modified":"2013-04-06T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T21:04:16","slug":"npr_a_great_piece_on_unintended_consequencesthe_affordable_health_care_act_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37689","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) A great piece on unintended consequences, the Affordable Health Care Act +Breast Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yummy Mummy, a little boutique on New York&#8217;s Upper East Side, has suddenly become a health care provider\/online superstore. The company has been hiring like crazy, and just opened an online call center and a warehouse in Illinois. Yummy Mummy even hired somebody to talk to customers&#8217; health insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>And new moms now seem more likely to splurge on fancy new breast pumps. Caroline Shany, a Yummy Mummy customer, spent her own money to buy a breast pump for her first baby. She may buy another one now because insurance will pick up the tab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not?&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2013\/01\/25\/170259620\/free-breast-pumps-and-the-cost-of-health-care\">Read or much better listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yummy Mummy, a little boutique on New York&#8217;s Upper East Side, has suddenly become a health care provider\/online superstore. The company has been hiring like crazy, and just opened an online call center and a warehouse in Illinois. Yummy Mummy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37689\">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":[39,40,513,582,589,149,104,597,593,117,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-philosophy","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689","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=37689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}