{"id":33,"date":"2009-01-09T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2019-08-14T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T23:35:52","slug":"health-care-system-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martinecker.com\/personalblog\/health-care-system-idiocy\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care System Idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just lost my dentist. Not &#8220;lost&#8221; as in &#8220;I lost my keys&#8221;. He also didn&#8217;t get lost. He&#8217;s still here. He didn&#8217;t retire. But still, I can&#8217;t go to my dentist anymore because our company&#8217;s dental health insurance plan changed from last year to this year. So even though I just had an appointment about a month ago and I still have a lot of things to get done with my teeth, I can no longer go to my dentist because a change in insurance means that you&#8217;re effectively a new patient and they currently don&#8217;t accept any new patients at my dentist&#8217;s office. How crazy is that? It&#8217;s ridiculous. I had dentists retire on me, but never refuse to keep me around as a (paying, I might add) patient!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just lost my dentist. Not &#8220;lost&#8221; as in &#8220;I lost my keys&#8221;. He also didn&#8217;t get lost. He&#8217;s still here. He didn&#8217;t retire. But still, I can&#8217;t go to my dentist anymore because our company&#8217;s dental health insurance plan changed from last year to this year. 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