{"id":15223,"date":"2020-02-13T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15223"},"modified":"2020-02-13T08:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T13:02:29","slug":"proposed-federal-budget-would-expand-the-options-for-medicare-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15223","title":{"rendered":"Proposed federal budget would expand the options for Medicare beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the proposed 2021 federal budget there are two items that will affect Medicare beneficiaries.\u00a0 One of the proposals would allow Social Security recipients to opt out of Medicare Part A, which currently is tricky to do.\u00a0 The other aims to give Medicare recipients the ability to contribute to health savings accounts and to medical savings account. Read attached article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/02\/12\/two-items-buried-in-trumps-budget-call-for-big-changes-to-medicare.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2587\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Whitehouse.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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>Among the proposed 2021 federal budget there are two items that will affect Medicare beneficiaries.\u00a0 One of the proposals would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29,10,6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-hras","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-msas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223","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=15223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15225,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions\/15225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}