{"id":20599,"date":"2022-12-05T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20599"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:40:54","slug":"the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20599","title":{"rendered":"The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Laren Weber and Hannah Recht for Kaiser Health News on December 2, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Missouri man who is deaf and blind said a medical bill he didn\u2019t know existed was sent to debt collections, triggering an 11% rise in his home insurance premiums. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/disability-tax-medical-bills-inaccessible-blind-americans\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, 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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The\u00a0link 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Laren Weber and Hannah Recht for Kaiser Health News on December 2, 2022 A Missouri man who is deaf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21,200],"tags":[305,304,306],"class_list":["post-20599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","tag-blind","tag-disability","tag-medical-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20599","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20599\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}