{"id":14695,"date":"2019-12-09T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14695"},"modified":"2019-12-09T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T14:56:03","slug":"its-not-just-you-picking-health-insurance-is-hard-heres-how-to-be-smart-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14695","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just You: Picking Health Insurance Is Hard. Here\u2019s How To Be Smart About It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Dan Weissmann for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Science has proved, no kidding around: Picking health insurance is extremely hard.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s open enrollment \u2014 time to pick next year\u2019s insurance \u2014 for folks who buy it on their own and for many of us in our jobs. Lots of us aren\u2019t sure we know how to pick, and research shows: We\u2019re not wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A group of economists found that\u00a0most people will not make the best choice\u00a0among the plans in front of them.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/open-enrollment-picking-health-insurance-is-hard-smart-guide\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" 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.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>(By Dan Weissmann for Kaiser Health News) Science has proved, no kidding around: Picking health insurance is extremely hard. It\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695","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=14695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14696,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14695\/revisions\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}