{"id":106701,"date":"2023-10-02T10:47:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=106701"},"modified":"2023-10-02T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:47:31","slug":"these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=106701","title":{"rendered":"These Appalachia Hospitals Made Big Promises to Gain a Monopoly. They\u2019re Failing to Deliver."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ballad Health, the only hospital system across a large swath of Tennessee and Virginia, has fallen short of quality-of-care and charity care obligations \u2014 even as it\u2019s sued thousands of patients for unpaid bills&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/appalachia-ballad-health-copa-monopoly-charity-care-quality\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballad Health, the only hospital system across a large swath of Tennessee and Virginia, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver.jpg",1024,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver.jpg",1024,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver.jpg",1024,768,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver.jpg",1024,768,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/106701-these-appalachia-hospitals-made-big-promises-to-gain-a-monopoly-theyre-failing-to-deliver-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}