{"id":402,"date":"2008-08-18T21:49:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T01:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2008-08-18T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T03:06:24","slug":"the-joys-of-insurance-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-joys-of-insurance-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Insurance Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance reform is here!<\/p>\n<p>My 2005 Mustang is celebrating it&#8217;s third birthday this month.  That means the annual insurance policy is up for renewal.  The bill from the old company came in the mail &#8211; $1050.<\/p>\n<p>Every year before this one, I&#8217;d pay the bill and that would be the end of the story.  There was no competition.  The state set the rates, and that was that.\u00c2\u00a0 I could shop for better customer service, or a prettier logo on the top of the bills, but that was it.<\/p>\n<p>This year is different. At long last the <a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/240\">state is permitting price competition<\/a>! I got a quote over the phone and two online, including one from Progressive.  Progressive offered a six-month policy that will cost me $300 less over the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Out with the old, in with the new.\u00c2\u00a0 And $300 that will stay in my pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurance reform is here! My 2005 Mustang is celebrating it&#8217;s third birthday this month. That means the annual insurance policy is up for renewal. The bill from the old company came in the mail &#8211; $1050. Every year before this one, I&#8217;d pay the bill and that would be the end of the story. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,31,30],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts","tag-car-insurance","tag-deregulation","tag-mass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}