{"id":13891,"date":"2019-08-23T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T13:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2019-08-23T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T13:17:16","slug":"health-care-sharing-ministries-are-not-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13891","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Sharing Ministries are not insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Georgia\u2019s insurance commissioner is warning consumers of the potential financial risks of joining a Health Care Sharing Ministries program \u2013 members agree to share one another\u2019s health care costs \u2013 as an alternative to regular insurance. Members of an HCSM typically have a particular religious faith in common, and make monthly payments to cover expenses of other members; however, HCSMs are not insurance. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahealthnews.com\/2019\/08\/confuse-health-sharing-ministries-insurance-state-warns-consumers\/\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file0001852299526-caution-tape-warning-beware-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9700\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file0001852299526-caution-tape-warning-beware-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file0001852299526-caution-tape-warning-beware-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/file0001852299526-caution-tape-warning-beware-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on 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>The State of Georgia\u2019s insurance commissioner is warning consumers of the potential financial risks of joining a Health Care Sharing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13893,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions\/13893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}