{"id":13381,"date":"2019-06-10T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13381"},"modified":"2019-06-10T08:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:47:17","slug":"13381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13381","title":{"rendered":"Basic Medicare with no backup insurance is a costly mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Experts say about one-third of Medicare beneficiaries use Medicare Advantage plans, which offer out-of-pocket maximums and often include dental and vision coverage or other extras; however, about 19 percent who stick with basic Medicare have no extra coverage. Considering basic Medicare with no backup insurance could be a costly mistake. With deductibles, copays, coinsurance and no out-of-pocket maximum has a variety of costs that make having no backup insurance a huge financial risk. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/06\/07\/considering-basic-medicare-with-no-backup-insurance-is-a-big-mistake.html\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8433\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png 700w\" 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>Experts say about one-third of Medicare beneficiaries use Medicare Advantage plans, which offer out-of-pocket maximums and often include dental and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381","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=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}