{"id":23017,"date":"2021-08-24T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23017"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:25:04","slug":"the-anti-vaxxers-could-cost-me-5-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23017","title":{"rendered":"The anti vaxxers could cost me 5 grand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.when I was on the bike this morning, a thought hit me that really, really pissed me off&#8230;with the anti vaxxers getting sick and spreading delta everywhere, these assholes could cost me 5 grand if I get sick and have to go to the hospital&#8230;see, even with my Medicare advantage plan, I am on the hook for 5 grand of co-pays if I end up in the hospital and that is pretty damn personal for me&#8230;and for the retirees who are still on regular Medicare, the plan only pays 80% of the bill and the patient is on the hook for the rest&#8230;and you know that weeks in the hospital with constant care is not\u00a0 going to be cheap&#8230;it could run up to half a million bucks and that would leave the patient with a bill of 100K&#8230;.and I don&#8217;t know of many retirees who could foot that bill with leaving them completely broke&#8230;so here&#8217;s another reason to hate these selfish assholes who are solely responsible for the trouble this country is in&#8230;and who are responsible for me and many others masking up again when we did everything right by getting vaccinated to help our country&#8230;I have had enough and have no sympathy for those who chose to not get vaccinated and who are killing our healthcare workers&#8230;shame on them&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.when I was on the bike this morning, a thought hit me that really, really pissed me off&#8230;with the anti vaxxers getting sick and spreading delta everywhere, these assholes could cost me 5 grand if I get sick and have to go to the hospital&#8230;see, even with my Medicare advantage plan, I am on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The anti vaxxers could cost me 5 grand&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1174,3002,401],"class_list":["post-23017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-covid","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23018,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions\/23018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}