{"id":8800,"date":"2017-12-01T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2017-12-01T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:29:02","slug":"desperate-for-coverage-are-short-term-plans-better-than-none-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8800","title":{"rendered":"Desperate For Coverage: Are Short-Term Plans Better Than None At All?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

When one of Cindy Holtzman\u2019s clients told the Woodstock, Ga., broker he was considering dropping his Affordable Care Act plan because next year\u2019s cost approached $23,000 for his family of four, she suggested a new option: a back-to-back set of four, 90-day short-term plans, which would effectively give them a modicum of medical coverage for 2018. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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