{"id":5314,"date":"2020-02-18T15:58:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:58:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:58:25","slug":"thousands-of-australians-ditch-private-health-insurance-as-out-of-pocket-hospital-costs-rise-politics-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/thousands-of-australians-ditch-private-health-insurance-as-out-of-pocket-hospital-costs-rise-politics-abc-news-australian-broadcasting-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Australians ditch private health insurance as out-of-pocket hospital costs rise &#8211; Politics &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>More than 9,000 Australians ditched their private health insurance in the last quarter of 2019, which consumer advocates say is young people voting with their feet and abandoning the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-02-18\/australians-dropping-private-health-out-of-pocket-costs-rise\/11975338\">Thousands of Australians ditch private health insurance as out-of-pocket hospital costs rise &#8211; Politics &#8211; ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because the private health industry is a parasite on society, poor value, amoral and should be abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 9,000 Australians ditched their private health insurance in the last quarter of 2019, which consumer advocates say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}