{"id":13291,"date":"2020-03-04T00:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2020-03-04T00:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:45:14","slug":"2020-03-04-the-high-cost-of-staying-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13291","title":{"rendered":"2020-03-04 The High Cost of Staying Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went out to Hennessey&#8217;s in downtown San Juan Capistrano, and I talked to a guy who is waiting on a list for a kidney.  In the meantime he goes to a dialysis center for treatment three times a week for four hours, brings his laptop and watches movies.  It costs his insurance $7,400.00 per treatment.  He said that in another country it would only cost $300.00.  There is something wrong with our medical system where it&#8217;s almost impossible to pay for a recurring lifesaving procedure that&#8217;s absolutely mandatory.  Seriously, your life is just a large amount of expense that some insurance company would like to avoid.  Your life, or your money?  It&#8217;s a very disturbing thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went out to Hennessey&#8217;s in downtown San Juan Capistrano, and I talked to a guy who is waiting on a list for a kidney. In the meantime he goes to a dialysis center for treatment three times a week for four hours, brings his laptop and watches movies. It costs his insurance $7,400.00 per<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=13291\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,250,20,1],"tags":[362],"class_list":["post-13291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-information","category-health","category-other-off-topic","category-uncategorized","tag-dialysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13292,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions\/13292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}