{"id":21395,"date":"2023-06-14T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21395"},"modified":"2023-06-14T08:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:15:01","slug":"at-least-1-7m-americans-use-health-sharing-arrangements-despite-lack-of-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21395","title":{"rendered":"At Least 1.7M Americans Use Health Sharing Arrangements, Despite Lack of Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Markian Hawryluk for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new report has provided the first national count of Americans who rely on health care sharing plans \u2014 arrangements through which people agree to pay one another\u2019s medical bills \u2014 and the number is higher than previously realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report from the Colorado Division of Insurance found that more than 1.7 million Americans rely on sharing plans and that many of the plans require members to ask for charity care before submitting their bills.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/health-sharing-arrangements-ministries-protections-risks\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/health-sharing-arrangements-ministries-protections-risks\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF \u2014 the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Markian Hawryluk for KFF Health News) A new report has provided the first national count of Americans who rely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,200],"tags":[97,708],"class_list":["post-21395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","tag-aca","tag-health-sharing-arrangements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395","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=21395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21396,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions\/21396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}