{"id":41150,"date":"2013-11-20T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/perks_ease_way_in_health_plans_for_lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:55:29","slug":"perks_ease_way_in_health_plans_for_lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41150","title":{"rendered":"Perks Ease Way in Health Plans for Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> While millions of Americans have been left to fend for themselves and go through the frustrating experience of trying to navigate the federal exchange, members of Congress and their aides have all sorts of assistance to help them sort through their options and enroll.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers and the employees who work in their \u201cofficial offices\u201d\u009d will receive coverage next year through the small-business marketplace of the local insurance exchange, known as D.C. Health Link, which has staff members close at hand for guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cD.C. Health Link set up shop right here in Congress,\u201d\u009d said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the delegate to the House from the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/for-lawmakers-a-gold-plated-insurance-exchange.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While millions of Americans have been left to fend for themselves and go through the frustrating experience of trying to navigate the federal exchange, members of Congress and their aides have all sorts of assistance to help them sort through<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41150\">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":[39,40,513,168,104,617,114,616,151,618,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41150","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=41150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}