{"id":15139,"date":"2020-02-04T08:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:05:51","slug":"as-out-of-pocket-health-costs-rise-insured-adults-are-seeking-less-primary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15139","title":{"rendered":"As Out-Of-Pocket Health Costs Rise, Insured Adults Are Seeking Less Primary Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elena Renken for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Efforts across the U.S. in recent years to encourage medical students, nurse practitioners and others to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2014\/11\/18\/360145347\/doctor-shortage-looming-maybe-not\">go into primary care<\/a>, especially in underserved areas, are built on a consensus in research: Primary care is good for patients.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/02\/03\/801351890\/as-out-of-pocket-health-costs-rise-insured-adults-are-seeking-less-primary-care\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/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 Elena Renken for NPR) Efforts across the U.S. in recent years to encourage medical students, nurse practitioners and others<\/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-15139","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\/15139","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=15139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15140,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15139\/revisions\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}