{"id":6573,"date":"2010-07-21T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T14:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/07\/health-insurance-premiums-and.html"},"modified":"2010-07-21T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T14:14:41","slug":"health-insurance-premiums-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/07\/health-insurance-premiums-and.html","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Premiums and Your Choice of Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/18\/business\/18choice.html?src=me&amp;ref=homepage\">this just in<\/a><\/b> &#8230; and it concerns me:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black;font-size: 1.2em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 0px;line-height: 24px\">As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country&#8217;s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/health\/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics\/hospitals\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival health news about hospitals.\" class=\"meta-classifier\">hospitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black;font-size: 1.2em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 0px;line-height: 24px\">The plans, being tested in places like San Diego, New York and Chicago, are likely to appeal especially to small businesses that already provide<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/your-money\/insurance\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\" title=\"More articles about insurance.\" class=\"meta-classifier\">insurance<\/a>&nbsp;to their employees, but are concerned about the ever-spiraling cost of coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: black;font-size: 1.2em;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 0px;line-height: 24px\">But large employers, as well, are starting to show some interest, and insurers and consultants expect that, over time, businesses of all sizes will gravitate toward these plans in an effort to cut costs.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, this just in &#8230; and it concerns me: As the Obama administration begins to enact the new national health care law, the country&#8217;s biggest insurers are promoting affordable plans with reduced premiums that require participants to use a narrower selection of doctors or&nbsp;hospitals. 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