{"id":2411,"date":"2016-03-29T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2016-03-29T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:33:17","slug":"mortgages-for-expensive-health-care-some-experts-think-it-can-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"Mortgages For Expensive Health Care? Some Experts Think It Can Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to get\u00a0highly effective but prohibitively expensive drugs into consumers\u2019 hands: health care installment loans.<\/p>\n<p>Writing last month in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stm.sciencemag.org\/content\/8\/327\/327ps6\" target=\"_blank\">Science Translational Medicine<\/a>,\u00a0the authors liken drug loans to mortgages, noting that both can enable consumers to buy big-ticket items\u00a0requiring a hefty up-front payment that they could not otherwise afford.<\/p>\n<p>Some consumer advocates and health insurance experts see it differently. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/mortgages-for-expensive-health-care-some-experts-think-it-can-work\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=27781580&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--VhLZ-7FpCSWN_W54XMxkP5TVAXH2M0-lhdd-0E4ERbBMWZbrF0d9YgIw8ibp7gEvXmadaW2pCLXwOdiLH4EG_OsfdGg&amp;_hsmi=27781580\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/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><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"94\" height=\"49\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","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\/2411","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}