{"id":854547,"date":"2026-09-20T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854547\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:30:08","slug":"even-medical-professionals-are-skipping-health-insurance-because-of-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854547\/","title":{"rendered":"Even medical professionals are skipping health insurance because of high prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"77WOMITFQZF55J4UREESRIK2V4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health insurance for their own family.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CSMH6QBWERFXHKBAP7TVZQXVUU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When the Durhams began their practice at the end of 2023 \u2014 he as a primary care physician and she as a pharmacist who handles billing \u2014 the couple bought coverage for themselves and their two children on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. But they said their monthly premiums for a similar health plan for this year rose several hundred dollars to nearly $1,600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-854547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}