{"id":13910,"date":"2019-08-27T07:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13910"},"modified":"2019-08-27T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:59:40","slug":"large-majority-support-adding-dental-coverage-to-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13910","title":{"rendered":"Large majority support adding dental coverage to Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll conducted by the consumer group Families USA, and YouGov, found that 70 percent of people surveyed agree dental benefits should be included in Medicare, as some Medicare Advantage (MA) plans include it as an extra benefit. Surprisingly a majority (59 percent) didn\u2019t know Medicare didn\u2019t already offer such benefits. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercehealthcare.com\/payer\/poll-70-support-adding-dental-coverage-to-medicare\">article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8564\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dreamstime_m_26959188survey-questionnaire-poll.jpg 2000w\" 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>A new poll conducted by the consumer group Families USA, and YouGov, found that 70 percent of people surveyed agree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910","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=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13911,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions\/13911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}