{"id":9134,"date":"2022-10-25T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T11:45:57","slug":"rape-victims-can-face-huge-hospital-bills-if-they-seek-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9134","title":{"rendered":"Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;When victims of rape or sexual violence seek emergency medical assistance following an attack, they may be saddled with hundreds or even thousands of dollars in medical bills, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMc2207644?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new study published this week<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>&nbsp;found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These bills can further traumatize victims, the study authors warn, and deter others from seeking professional help. Only one-fifth of sexual violence victims are estimated to seek medical care following an attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/9\/14\/23350880\/hospitals-bills-rape-victims-vawa-roe-abortion\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/9\/14\/23350880\/hospitals-bills-rape-victims-vawa-roe-abortion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When victims of rape or sexual violence seek emergency medical assistance following an attack, they may be saddled with hundreds or even thousands of dollars in medical bills, a new study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine found.<\/p>\n<p>These bills can further traumatize victims, the study authors warn, and deter others from seeking professional help. Only one-fifth of sexual violence victims are estimated to seek medical care following an attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[73,72,50,70,1723],"class_list":["post-9134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-healthcare","tag-high-medical-prices","tag-medical","tag-medical-prices","tag-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}