{"id":329186,"date":"2026-02-10T02:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/329186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:30:24","slug":"americans-are-taking-drastic-steps-to-find-affordable-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/329186\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Taking Drastic Steps to Find Affordable Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-02\/aca-subsidies-the-impact-of-their-expiration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Sharp increases<\/a> in monthly health care bills hit the wallets of more than 20 million Americans this month. Priced out of their regular coverage, some of them are forgoing insurance entirely, or taking drastic steps to get the care they need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Maddie Bannister, 33, is newly uninsured after her Obamacare bills spiked. Instead, she\u2019s decided that if she, her husband and two kids need a doctor, they\u2019ll drive two hours from their home in San Clemente, California, and see one in Mexico. The move, she said, is saving her family $600 a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharp increases in monthly health care bills hit the wallets of more than 20 million Americans this month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[1374,6046,18,135,475,474,69983,19,17,157877,388,10269,98101,12318,1114,12157,5644],"class_list":["post-329186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-california","tag-debt","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marc-ashton","tag-mexico","tag-new-jersey","tag-obamacare","tag-policy","tag-social-media","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-wealth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116043987272988715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}