{"id":3724,"date":"2010-03-02T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2010-03-02T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T04:26:08","slug":"repostif-free-works-on-the-internet-can-it-work-for-health-insurance-blog-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/02\/repostif-free-works-on-the-internet-can-it-work-for-health-insurance-blog-maverick\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::If Free Works on the Internet, Can It Work for Health Insurance ? \u00ab blog maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice counterpoint to the free economy view espoused by many of the social media stars\/darling. I have no horse in this race. I just simply want good service at a reasonable price. I buy stuff. I have a good mental model of what I consider the fair price!!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHere is the bottom line. Would consumers and businesses commit to do business with companies that offer incentives and subsidies built around health insurance coverage ? And what if health insurance became a value add rather than a primary product ? Would a service from companies that are big enough to self insure and add their customers to their corporate health care programs change the dynamics and economics of health care ? Would it create enough competition to force traditional insurance companies to change their ways ?<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/2010\/02\/27\/if-free-works-on-the-internet-can-it-work-for-health-insurance\/\">If Free Works on the Internet, Can It Work for Health Insurance ? \u00ab blog maverick<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice counterpoint to the free economy view espoused by many of the social media stars\/darling. I have no horse in this race. I just simply want good service at a reasonable price. I buy stuff. I have a good mental model of what I consider the fair price!! Here is the bottom line. Would consumers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/02\/repostif-free-works-on-the-internet-can-it-work-for-health-insurance-blog-maverick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::If Free Works on the Internet, Can It Work for Health Insurance ? \u00ab blog maverick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}