{"id":2767,"date":"2010-09-21T06:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2010-09-28T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:16:17","slug":"morning-read-essex-county-faces-46-health-insurance-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/21\/morning-read-essex-county-faces-46-health-insurance-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Essex County faces 46% health insurance hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fun just keeps coming for North Country counties, struggling with declining state revenues and increased demand for their services.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Essex County supervisors have been told by their insurance company that they face a massive hike in their insurance premiums, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x625418463\/Essex-Countys-health-insurance-to-soar\">Lohr McKinstry&#8217;s article in the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason for the increase is an extraordinary number of claims, seven  of which exceeded $100,000, said consultant Mark Crawford of Burnham  Financial.<\/p>\n<p>He said the county had $6.1 million in claims but paid only $5.5 million in premiums this year for medical coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lohr&#8217;s article doesn&#8217;t detail why there were so many claims, but it does lay out the array of other spiraling costs that the county faces.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x625418463\/Essex-Countys-health-insurance-to-soar\">Read all about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fun just keeps coming for North Country counties, struggling with declining state revenues and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}