{"id":16866,"date":"2022-12-03T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=16866"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T12:47:45","slug":"the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=16866","title":{"rendered":"The Disability Tax: Medical Bills Remain Inaccessible for Many Blind Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurers and health care systems across the country are violating disability rights laws by sending medical bills that blind and visually impaired people cannot read, a KHN investigation has found. By hindering the ability of blind Americans to know what they owe, some bills get sent to debt collections&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/disability-tax-medical-bills-inaccessible-blind-americans\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurers and health care systems across the country are violating disability rights laws by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/16866-the-disability-tax-medical-bills-remain-inaccessible-for-many-blind-americans-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=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866","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=16866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}