{"id":6894,"date":"2015-10-28T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/do-you-get-what-you-pay-for\/"},"modified":"2015-10-28T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T04:58:09","slug":"do-you-get-what-you-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/do-you-get-what-you-pay-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Get What You Pay For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Sometimes.&#0160; Other times you are charged what you can afford.&#0160; Adding to the problem is that we often do not pay directly for goods and services.&#0160; A third party picks up the tab, an insurance company, or&#0160;an employer.&#0160; No wonder my dentist and primary care physician like to see me so often.&#0160; No wonder I go along.&#0160; The care providers can overbill quite outrageously while all it costs me is a measly co-pay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Imagine how much an oil change would cost if routine maintenance were covered by &#39;auto care insurance.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes.&#0160; Other times you are charged what you can afford.&#0160; Adding to the problem is that we often do not pay directly for goods and services.&#0160; A third party picks up the tab, an insurance company, or&#0160;an employer.&#0160; No wonder my dentist and primary care physician like to see me so often.&#0160; No wonder I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/28\/do-you-get-what-you-pay-for\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Get What You Pay For?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}