{"id":1066,"date":"2015-11-02T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2015-11-02T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T13:10:47","slug":"alaskans-face-tough-choices-because-of-high-insurance-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Alaskans Face Tough Choices Because Of High Insurance Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Annie Feidt, Alaska Public Radio Network, Via Kaiser health News, 10\/30\/2015)<\/p>\n<p>Gunnar Ebbesson is used to paying a lot for health insurance, but the small business owner from Fairbanks got a shock recently when his quote came in for next year\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand who can afford this? I mean who really can afford this?\u201d he says.\u00a0 \u201cI can pay it, but I can\u2019t afford it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The premium for his family of five came to more than $40,000 a year. That\u2019s for a bare bones plan with a $10,000 deductible that he buys through the marketplace set up by the Affordable Care Act. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/alaskans-face-tough-choices-because-of-high-insurance-costs\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=23351138&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Mw99IeQCS3MyDtl4QiUXmJM-iekDDdjGJG2Yw3MtJEsntzSbaG1j-OF0l8CRG6kVbdrI2VWLsjN1oQJO9_l1Cen-l3Q&amp;_hsmi=23351138\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\r\n\u00a0on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Annie Feidt, Alaska Public Radio Network, Via Kaiser health News, 10\/30\/2015) Gunnar Ebbesson is used to paying a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}