{"id":1484,"date":"2015-12-24T08:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T13:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2015-12-24T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T15:50:30","slug":"worlds-apart-vast-disparities-in-treatment-separate-americans-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Apart: Vast Disparities In Treatment Separate Americans With HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A major insurer said recently it would <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/major-insurer-says-it-will-offer-individual-life-insurance-coverage-to-people-with-hiv\/\" target=\"_blank\">offer life insurance<\/a> to HIV-positive people because of their rising life expectancies, prompting cheers from AIDS activists. But on the very same day, \u00a0the nation\u2019s top disease control official described an America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMms1513641\" target=\"_blank\">falling far short in its fight against AIDS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It might seem a jarring disconnect \u2014 but it reflects very different realities dividing the estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV\/AIDS. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/worlds-apart-vast-disparities-in-treatment-separate-americans-with-hiv\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=24861081&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--VvqEE87-O_pwtoPPyLpf32nMbBCI2ivW5zbO-_5hIaXyueCaat53DUaiOg-U0Y3Lz8jFBkMNq-xyfxJTN_iIc4L4n4A&amp;_hsmi=24861081\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a 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 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 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News) A major insurer said recently it would offer life insurance to HIV-positive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}