{"id":43239,"date":"2014-03-25T15:45:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_south_carolina_explaining_the_penalty_phase_of_the_health_insurance_mand\/"},"modified":"2014-03-25T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T15:45:49","slug":"in_south_carolina_explaining_the_penalty_phase_of_the_health_insurance_mand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43239","title":{"rendered":"(The State) In South Carolina, Explaining the penalty phase of the health insurance mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.with less than 10 days left in the 2014 window to apply for coverage with policies through the federal marketplace, lots of people still don\u2019t understand the penalties. Who pays? Who doesn\u2019t? How do you pay? How do you avoid paying?<\/p>\n<p>Toni McKinnon of Columbia stopped by Richland Library\u2019s main branch on Assembly Street last week to find out about the health insurance marketplace because she was worried about having to pay a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re living paycheck to paycheck, you can\u2019t afford insurance,\u201d\u009d McKinnon said, \u201cand you sure can\u2019t afford to pay some kind of penalty.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She left the library slightly confused and very disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/03\/24\/3346403\/explaining-the-penalty-phase-of.html?sp=\/99\/205\/&#038;ihp=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.with less than 10 days left in the 2014 window to apply for coverage with policies through the federal marketplace, lots of people still don\u2019t understand the penalties. Who pays? Who doesn\u2019t? How do you pay? How do you avoid<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43239\">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":[39,40,513,582,149,168,104,114,593,151,619,587,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43239","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-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239","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=43239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}