{"id":49703,"date":"2015-05-07T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/seattle_times_banking_on_faith_cost-sharing_ministries_offer_obamacare_alte\/"},"modified":"2015-05-07T01:05:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:05:53","slug":"seattle_times_banking_on_faith_cost-sharing_ministries_offer_obamacare_alte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49703","title":{"rendered":"(Seattle Times) Banking on faith: Cost-sharing ministries offer Obamacare alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Melissa Mira suffered sudden heart failure at the end of her second pregnancy last year, she worried first about her health and her baby \u201d\u201d then about the more than $200,000 in medical bills that began rolling in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour world is just crashing down around you and you wonder: \u201d\u02dcHow is this going to be covered?\u2019\u201d\u2030\u201d\u009d recalled Mira, 30, who spent more than a month away from her Tacoma home, hospitalized at the University of Washington Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>For Mira and her family, the answer came not through traditional health insurance, but through faith that fellow Christians would step forward to pay the bills.<\/p>\n<p>The Miras \u201d\u201d including daughter Jael, 4, and baby Sienna Rain, now a healthy 9-month-old \u201d\u201d are among the growing numbers of people looking to \u201chealth care-sharing ministries\u201d\u009d across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/banking-on-faith-cost-sharing-ministries-offer-obamacare-alternative\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Melissa Mira suffered sudden heart failure at the end of her second pregnancy last year, she worried first about her health and her baby \u201d\u201d then about the more than $200,000 in medical bills that began rolling in. \u201cYour<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49703\">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":[48,39,40,513,175,101,149,168,104,114,98,184,177,593,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49703","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=49703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}