{"id":454,"date":"2014-11-20T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/?p=454"},"modified":"2015-02-12T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:38:10","slug":"will-any-journalist-hold-hhs-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Will Any Journalist Hold HHS Accountable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Health and Human Services held an open Q&amp;A with Chris Hayes. I was ecstatic to see that Chris was interested in the transgender exclusions and was going to ask a question about it. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.27.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.27.12-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-20 at 3.27.12 PM\" width=\"501\" height=\"763\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is *any journalist* out there willing to stay on HHS about this? We know that pre-existing conditions are banned. \u00a0That isn&#8217;t the question. \u00a0The question is why insurance providers are still allowed to issue things like this, an excerpt from this year&#8217;s Blue Cross Federal Employee Program, which covers 63% of Federal employees:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.22.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.22.32-PM-805x1024.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-11-20 at 3.22.32 PM\" width=\"625\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.22.32-PM-805x1024.png 805w, http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.22.32-PM-236x300.png 236w, http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-20-at-3.22.32-PM.png 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please. \u00a0Someone cover this story. \u00a0We need your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Health and Human Services held an open Q&amp;A with Chris Hayes. I was ecstatic to see that Chris was interested in the transgender exclusions and was going to ask a question about it. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what happened: Is *any journalist* out there willing to stay on HHS about this? We know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pI5m-7k","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emily-esque.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}