{"id":934253,"date":"2026-10-15T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934253\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:36:09","slug":"opinion-surprise-health-care-bills-are-banned-but-americans-still-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934253\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Surprise health care bills are banned, but Americans still pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"REO5BCIEOFA3TMFPXFUEMWNXG4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Jackson Hammond is a senior policy analyst at Paragon Health Institute. Brian Blase is president of Paragon. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"S2YWICOFKRDLRJMLN2CHJSIZ2M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">With less than a month before the midterms, Republican and Democratic candidates both say affordability is a priority. They could start by addressing the unintended consequences of the No Surprises Act\u2019s arbitration system, which cost Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/content\/forefront\/spending-idr-process-pushes-no-surprises-act-costs-more-than-22-4-billion-over-just\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/content\/forefront\/spending-idr-process-pushes-no-surprises-act-costs-more-than-22-4-billion-over-just\">nearly $17 billion<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Hammond is a senior policy analyst at Paragon Health Institute. Brian Blase is president of Paragon. With&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-934253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}