{"id":801459,"date":"2019-11-17T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374614"},"modified":"2019-11-17T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T22:00:24","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-stop-trying-to-help-youre-only-making-it-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-stop-trying-to-help-youre-only-making-it-more-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Stop trying to help; you\u2019re only making it more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After reading the story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/mark-and-deb-spiers-honored-as-the-spirit-of-the-summit-in-annual-philanthropy-awards\/\">Mark and Deb Spiers honored as the Spirit of the Summit in annual philanthropy awards<\/a>,\u201d I\u2019m left wondering why pharmaceutical executives are helping Summit County residents with the Peak Health Alliance health care plans. In fact, my health care insurance premium for 2020 has increased. Just as this publication covered a few days ago. (Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/tax-credit-glitch-costing-some-summit-county-residents-more-for-health-insurance-in-2020-despite-promise-of-decreases\/\">Summit Daily, for highlighting the issue.<\/a> This \u201cglitch\u201d is hurting many I have spoken to in the county.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy that people that are well off are able to relocate here due to their love of skiing.<\/p>\n<p>For those who live here due to birth and family ties, please stop trying to help us. Your help is costing us the limited disposable income we have.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for listening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-stop-trying-to-help-youre-only-making-it-more-expensive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the story \u201cMark and Deb Spiers honored as the Spirit of the Summit in annual philanthropy awards,\u201d I\u2019m left wondering why pharmaceutical executives are helping Summit County residents with the Peak Health Alliance health care plans. In fact, my health care insurance premium for 2020 has increased. Just as this publication covered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 18:02:25","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}