{"id":55300,"date":"2016-08-04T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_david_lazarus-obamacare_covers_free_annual_physicals_right_wrong\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:45:25","slug":"la_times_david_lazarus-obamacare_covers_free_annual_physicals_right_wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55300","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times)  David Lazarus&#8211;Obamacare covers free annual physicals, right? Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banning resident Jim Bailey and his wife went in recently for their annual physicals. They came away with hundreds of dollars in charges for co-pays and tests.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, 78, told me that he feels duped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Affordable Care Act dictates that all annual physicals be provided at no cost to the policyholders \u201d\u201d no deductibles or co-pays,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cBut that wasn\u2019t the case with us.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Nor will it be the case with anyone else \u201d\u201d even though many Americans believe otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/lazarus\/la-fi-lazarus-obamacare-physicals-20160802-snap-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banning resident Jim Bailey and his wife went in recently for their annual physicals. They came away with hundreds of dollars in charges for co-pays and tests. Bailey, 78, told me that he feels duped. \u201cThe Affordable Care Act dictates<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55300\">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":[39,40,50,513,209,175,582,149,168,104,593,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55300","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=55300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}