{"id":130138,"date":"2025-11-11T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130138\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:48:08","slug":"us-health-care-premium-spikes-to-squeeze-main-street-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130138\/","title":{"rendered":"US Health Care Premium Spikes to Squeeze Main Street Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Gladys Harrison, owner of Big Mama\u2019s Kitchen and Catering, was already struggling to cover rising food prices for ingredients at the Omaha restaurant that\u2019s been in her family for two generations. Then, she got notice last month that her health-care premiums will nearly quadruple next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s all of the things happening at once,\u201d said Harrison, 58, one of 24 million Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act marketplace for insurance. She\u2019s considering picking up more shifts at the restaurant to cover her monthly premium \u2014 and may have to cut other employees\u2019 hours to make ends meet in a tough economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gladys Harrison, owner of Big Mama\u2019s Kitchen and Catering, was already struggling to cover rising food prices for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64552,8310,89910,564,266,134,527,8307,111,139,69,15584,135,5611,15580,15581],"class_list":{"0":"post-130138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-barack-h-obama","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-dan-r-brouillette","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-healthcare","15":"tag-law","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-obamacare","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-small-business","22":"tag-u-s-democrats","23":"tag-u-s-republicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}