{"id":2740,"date":"2012-08-20T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T16:31:19","slug":"health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made a really good run at it. And it&#8217;s only through your support that I&#8217;ve been able to keep it going as long as I have. But I finally have to accept defeat and acknowledge I simply can&#8217;t pay my health insurance for August.<\/p>\n<p>For months, I&#8217;ve struggled to keep it going. It&#8217;s been touch-and-go there for awhile. I&#8217;m close to getting some bills paid off but just not close enough. It just won&#8217;t happen soon enough to count.<\/p>\n<p>Too many expenses are due right now. Our power bill of $166 needs to be paid (it&#8217;s been a record-breaking hot summer), we had the car window failure Friday ($60), multiple visits to the neurologist for Love ($25 copays add up) plus Rx changes for him and all told, it just ate up any money I could put towards the August premium.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been running behind for months now, barely making the month&#8217;s premium by month&#8217;s end &#8211; only to then be faced with needing the following month&#8217;s premium already. I&#8217;m basically a payment behind and coming up with $237 is impossible enough, let alone double that to get caught up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a year of health insurance which is more than I can say for many. I&#8217;m 10 1\/2 months post-op and while I won&#8217;t be able to get into the gyno for my annual, I feel good these days and everything should be ok.<\/p>\n<p>I post this to update everyone on where we are in this long, difficult process and to sincerely send my thanks for all the help and support I&#8217;ve received this past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made a really good run at it. And it&#8217;s only through your support that I&#8217;ve been able to keep it going as long as I have. But I finally have to accept defeat and acknowledge I simply can&#8217;t pay my health insurance for August. For months, I&#8217;ve struggled to keep it going. It&#8217;s been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,1,50,7],"tags":[82,368,81,61,60,406,362,348,147,349,350],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car","category-finances","category-general","category-hysterectomy","category-health","tag-finances-2","tag-healing","tag-hysterectomy-2","tag-medical-assistance","tag-medical-bills","tag-pcip","tag-post-op","tag-post-op-hysterectomy","tag-surgery","tag-tlh","tag-total-laparoscopic-hysterectomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}