{"id":2315,"date":"2012-03-31T00:52:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2012-03-31T00:52:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T05:52:56","slug":"what-seems-to-get-overlooked-in-the-supreme-courts-review-of-the-individual-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2012\/03\/31\/what-seems-to-get-overlooked-in-the-supreme-courts-review-of-the-individual-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"What seems to get overlooked in the supreme court&#8217;s review of the individual mandate &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What seems to get overlooked in the supreme court&#8217;s review of the individual mandate is that though young, healthy people may not need health insurance, health insurance is, sadly, a gatekeeper to getting access to even (relatively) cheap and easy healthcare services.\u00a0 The expense, difficulty and stigma of accessing health care without insurance, and <a title=\"Healthy Indiana Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2008\/01\/29\/healthy-indiana-plan\/\">often even with insurance<\/a>, keeps people from getting into habits of self-care that can lead to better health or earlier detection when someone&#8217;s health changes.\u00a0 Young, healthy people may not need health insurance in the same way as other healthcare users, but they need to take care of themselves, which should include accessing different kinds of healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m deeply ambivalent about an individual mandate as a solution, but I do think it exposes the shortcomings of a market-based health care system that puts the market and the system above human needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What seems to get overlooked in the supreme court&#8217;s review of the individual mandate is that though young, healthy people may not need health insurance, health insurance is, sadly, a gatekeeper to getting access to even (relatively) cheap and easy healthcare services.\u00a0 The expense, difficulty and stigma of accessing health care without insurance, and often&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2012\/03\/31\/what-seems-to-get-overlooked-in-the-supreme-courts-review-of-the-individual-mandate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What seems to get overlooked in the supreme court&#8217;s review of the individual mandate &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,20633],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthcare","tag-individual-mandate","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-Bl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}