{"id":18982,"date":"2010-02-02T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=18982"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:15","slug":"sun-journal-cummings-healtcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/02\/sun-journal-cummings-healtcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Journal op-ed by Dr. Nancy Cummings &#039;81 touts &#039;fairer&#039; way to pay for healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the <em>Sun Journal <\/em>about national health-care legislation, Dr. Nancy Madsen Cummings &#8217;81 suggests that while &#8220;no one likes more taxes and fees,&#8221; U.S. citizens already pay a variety of hidden fees related to medical care, &#8220;to pay for those who pay nothing, and to make up the shortfall because Medicaid and Medicare don&#8217;t pay the full cost of care they purchase on behalf of their enrollees.&#8221; Cummings, a Bates biology major, orthopedic surgeon in Farmington and chair of the Maine Medical Association&#8217;s executive committee, argues that raising new revenues to &#8220;subsidize coverage for those who cannot afford its full cost, and requiring the purchase of such insurance, is a fairer and more rational way to pay for care.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/content\/colncummj012410\">View story from the<em> Sun Journal<\/em>, Jan. 28, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the Sun Journal about national health-care legislation, Dr. Nancy Madsen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,162,32,220,11009],"tags":[11051,1690],"class_list":["post-18982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-health-medicine","category-maine-and-new-england","category-service","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93237,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions\/93237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}