{"id":40806,"date":"2013-10-30T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/large_local_healthcare_co-_drops_bluecross_blueshield_and_launches_own_heal\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:15:24","slug":"large_local_healthcare_co-_drops_bluecross_blueshield_and_launches_own_heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40806","title":{"rendered":"Large Local HealthCare Co. drops BlueCross BlueShield and launches own health insurance plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palmetto Primary Care Physicians will launch a new in-house health insurance plan next month for its employees because BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina\u2019s rates have become too expensive, the group\u2019s CEO said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The in-house plan will reduce health insurance costs for the practice\u2019s 600 employees by as much as 85 percent per pay period, said spokeswoman Vivian Barajas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe savings on my end is over 50 percent,\u201d\u009d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like getting a mini-raise for us.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131029\/PC16\/131029320\/1177\/palmetto-primary-care-physicians-drops-bluecross-blueshield-coverage-for-its-employees-launches-own-health-insurance-plan\">Read it all<\/a> (from the front page above the fold of the print edition of the local paper).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palmetto Primary Care Physicians will launch a new in-house health insurance plan next month for its employees because BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina\u2019s rates have become too expensive, the group\u2019s CEO said Tuesday. The in-house plan will reduce health insurance<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40806\">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":[39,40,54,513,582,589,149,168,104,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806","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=40806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}