{"id":6170,"date":"2014-02-11T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2014-02-07T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T18:17:15","slug":"doc-shock-occurs-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Doc Shock&quot; Occurs As Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, that is, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-02-06\/-doc-shock-reaches-the-masses.html\">Megan McArdle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In December, I predicted that \u201cdoc shock\u201d was going to be a major problem for the U.S. health-care overhaul, as people found out that the narrow networks insurers use to keep premiums low often don\u2019t cover the top-notch doctors you\u2019d like to see if you get really sick:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, it\u2019s already started, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/article_email\/SB10001424052702304450904579365373011903340-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwNjEwNDYyWj\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Health-care wonks can insist that narrow networks aren\u2019t news, but clearly, these networks are news to the folks in the plans &#8212; and now that they know, they aren\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. They&#8217;re trying to fix this by passing laws, but that&#8217;s been done before with the whole HMO thing years ago. The result was costs continuing to rise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predicted, that is, by Megan McArdle: In December, I predicted that \u201cdoc shock\u201d was going to be a major problem for the U.S. health-care overhaul, as people found out that the narrow networks insurers use to keep premiums low often don\u2019t cover the top-notch doctors you\u2019d like to see if you get really sick: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government","category-healthcare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}