{"id":13393,"date":"2019-06-11T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13393"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:34:29","slug":"a-medigap-long-term-care-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13393","title":{"rendered":"A Medigap long-term care benefit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">House Ways &amp; Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) is reviewing a plan to add limited long-term care benefit to Medicare Supplement (Medigap) insurance. The idea would expand to traditional Medicare a recent innovation that added limited supports and services to Medicare Advantage managed care plans. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/howardgleckman\/2019\/06\/10\/a-top-house-democrat-mulls-a-medigap-long-term-care-benefit\/#27e61e3351c2\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8962\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg 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>House Ways &amp; Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) is reviewing a plan to add limited long-term care benefit to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393","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=13393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13394,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13393\/revisions\/13394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}