{"id":1300979,"date":"2018-12-06T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/with-record-profits-the-past-few-years-why-doesnt-vail-health-lower-its-prices-letter\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:13:00","slug":"with-record-profits-the-past-few-years-why-doesnt-vail-health-lower-its-prices-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/with-record-profits-the-past-few-years-why-doesnt-vail-health-lower-its-prices-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"With record profits the past few years, why doesn\u2019t Vail Health lower its prices? (letter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor: I applaud the Daily for printing the recent Denver Post article regarding Vail Health (&#8220;Why are health care costs rising in Colorado?&#8221; Thursday, Oct. 11). Having studied Vail Health for years, I feel the Post did an accurate portrayal of the situation.<br \/>\nDoris Kirchner obviously disagrees, and in her recent response in the Daily, she cited several instances questioning assertions that Vail Health makes excessive profits (&#8220;Vail Health CEO responds to Denver Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/with-record-profits-the-past-few-years-why-doesnt-vail-health-lower-its-prices-letter\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/with-record-profits-the-past-few-years-why-doesnt-vail-health-lower-its-prices-letter\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"With record profits the past few years, why doesn\u2019t Vail Health lower its prices? (letter)\">Vail Daily Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor: I applaud the Daily for printing the recent Denver Post article regarding Vail Health (&#8220;Why are health care costs rising in Colorado?&#8221; Thursday, Oct. 11). Having studied Vail Health for years, I feel the Post did an accurate portrayal of the situation.<br \/>\nDoris Kirchner obviously disagrees, and in her recent response in the Daily, she cited several instances questioning assertions that Vail Health makes excessive profits (&#8220;Vail Health CEO responds to Denver Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/with-record-profits-the-past-few-years-why-doesnt-vail-health-lower-its-prices-letter\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1300979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 19:42:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}