{"id":4990,"date":"2007-08-22T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2007-08-23T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:21:35","slug":"video-sicko-for-homeowners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4990","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sicko&#8217; for Homeowners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/shows\/333\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/now_insurance.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>PBS&#8217;s <em>NOW<\/em> with David Brancaccio, in collaboration with Bloomberg Markets magazine, dedicated last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/now\/shows\/333\/index.html\">Friday&#8217;s entire episode<\/a> (23:12) to exposing the underhanded tactics used by the insurance industry to bolster its bottom line at the expense of homeowners. One common tactic involves insurance companies replacing the phrase &#8220;guaranteed replacement value&#8221; with &#8220;extended replacement value&#8221; in policies without informing homeowners that the latter will result in a drastic reduction in benefits.  <\/p>\n<p>None of this was surprising to John Garamendi, California&#8217;s Lieutenant Governor and former Insurance Commissioner, who states on camera, &#8220;The first commandment of the insurance industry is, &#8216;Thou shalt pay as little, as late, as possible.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Video available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\"><em>NOW<\/em> website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>DISCLOSURE: The producer of the <\/em>NOW<em> piece is a relative of mine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer PBS&#8217;s NOW with David Brancaccio, in collaboration with Bloomberg Markets magazine, dedicated last Friday&#8217;s entire episode (23:12) to exposing the underhanded tactics used by the insurance industry to bolster its bottom line at the expense of homeowners. One common tactic involves insurance companies replacing the phrase &#8220;guaranteed replacement value&#8221; with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pbs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}