{"id":16855,"date":"2018-09-03T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16855"},"modified":"2018-09-03T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:47:59","slug":"a-few-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16855","title":{"rendered":"A few bitches&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;no pool today with the bar being closed for Labor Day so I thought I&#8217;d just come here for a few bitches&#8230;so here goes&#8230;.you know, I waited over 15 years to be able to get health insurance again&#8230;that I could afford&#8230;and I thought I&#8217;d paid my entire working life for Medicare and didn&#8217;t expect the expenses that still come even after paying in for forty years&#8230;I mean the basic cost is 134 bucks a month but that is without a supplement policy that would cost me another 100 dollars a month that I can&#8217;t afford, or if I had to take part D for prescriptions that would be another 100 a month&#8230;so how do people who need this stuff afford the 334 dollars a month on a fixed income? And that doesn&#8217;t even cover the co pays which will be 184 dollars for my checkup tomorrow&#8230;.and that is not even addressing the 20% of any hospital bill that I will have to pay for if I ever end up there&#8230;which could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for my end of it&#8230;.folks, this is why we need to vote for the dems this fall&#8230;at least they have promised to increase the coverage so we should be protected from going broke in retirement&#8230;can you say that about the repubs? Nope&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;no pool today with the bar being closed for Labor Day so I thought I&#8217;d just come here for a few bitches&#8230;so here goes&#8230;.you know, I waited over 15 years to be able to get health insurance again&#8230;that I could afford&#8230;and I thought I&#8217;d paid my entire working life for Medicare and didn&#8217;t expect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A few bitches&#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":[11],"tags":[401],"class_list":["post-16855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16856,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16855\/revisions\/16856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}