{"id":19456,"date":"2019-02-27T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19456"},"modified":"2019-02-27T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T12:43:07","slug":"denying-health-life-insurance-to-people-with-hiv-illegal-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/denying-health-life-insurance-to-people-with-hiv-illegal-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Denying health, life insurance to people with HIV illegal \u2013 lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rappler.com\/612F469A6EA84F6BAE882D2B94A4B421\/img\/3367B11334F64145B2B525B34637AD9C\/hiv-testing-guide-20150513-004_3367B11334F64145B2B525B34637AD9C.jpg\" alt=\"HIV STATUS. Insurance companies in the Philippines are not allowed to deny service to persons living with HIV. Photo by George Moya\/Rappler \" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HIV STATUS. Insurance companies in the Philippines are not allowed to deny service to persons living with HIV. Photo by George Moya\/Rappler<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Surigao del Sur Representative Johnny Pimentel reminded health maintenance organizations that denying insurance to people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is illegal under the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/220612-duterte-signs-hiv-aids-policy-act-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently signed<\/a>\u00a0HIV and AIDS Policy Act of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel issued the clarification as standard insurance policies of insurance companies reviewed before the passage of the law, which took effect on January 25 this year, showed many still excluded HIV-related cases from their coverages. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/224495-denying-health-life-insurance-people-living-with-hiv-illegal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Surigao del Sur Representative Johnny Pimentel reminded health maintenance organizations that denying insurance to people living with the human&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}