{"id":106430,"date":"2020-05-02T19:34:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/u-s-health-insurers-benefit-as-elective-care-cuts-offset-coronavirus-costs"},"modified":"2020-05-02T19:34:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T02:34:59","slug":"u-s-health-insurers-benefit-as-elective-care-cuts-offset-coronavirus-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/u-s-health-insurers-benefit-as-elective-care-cuts-offset-coronavirus-costs","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Health Insurers Benefit as Elective Care Cuts Offset Coronavirus Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-health-insurers-benefit-as-elective-care-cuts-offset-coronavirus-costs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 As Americans delay elective surgeries and avoid doctors and hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare spending declines have more than offset the added costs of COVID-19 care, insurance executives and experts say, boosting U.S. health insurer profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 As Americans delay elective surgeries and avoid doctors and hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare spending declines have more than offset the added costs of COVID-19 care, insurance executives and experts say, boosting U.S. health insurer profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}