{"id":2998,"date":"2008-04-23T21:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200804\/exclusion-for-vds\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:23:32","slug":"exclusion-for-vds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200804\/exclusion-for-vds\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusion for VDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking over the terms of my company&#8217;s medical insurance policy and there is an exclusion for venereal diseases. This seems to be standard for all providers. Any idea why? Of course, this is &#8220;self-inflicted&#8221; in the sense that you choose to have the risky sex that causes this, but then, there is no lung cancer exclusion for smokers. Is it a moral issue or is there some other reason I am missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking over the terms of my company&#8217;s medical insurance policy and there is an exclusion for venereal diseases. This seems to be standard for all providers. Any idea why? Of course, this is &#8220;self-inflicted&#8221; in the sense that you choose to have the risky sex that causes this, but then, there is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[129,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}