{"id":13329,"date":"2019-06-03T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13329"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:10:48","slug":"time-to-man-up-and-get-screened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13329","title":{"rendered":"Time to man up and get screened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.medicare.gov\/blog)<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">Are you the type of guy who puts off doing a task or getting a test and later wished you\u2019d just gotten it over with?\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">If you\u2019re a man with Medicare, now\u2019s the time to talk with your doctor about whether you should get screened for\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Prostate cancer screenings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/coverage\/prostate-cancer-screenings\"><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">prostate cancer<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">,\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Preventive &amp; screening services\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/coverage\/preventive-screening-services\"><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">colorectal cancer<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">, or both. Screening tests can find cancer early, when treatment works best.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/blog\/time-to-man-up-and-get-screened\">blog here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11503\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog-300x32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog-300x32.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-medicare-blog.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.medicare.gov\/blog) Are you the type of guy who puts off doing a task or getting a test and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13330,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13329\/revisions\/13330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}