{"id":15899,"date":"2020-05-01T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15899"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:25:57","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-medicare-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15899","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what you need to know about Medicare and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic and it has been particularly hard on seniors.\u00a0 Today, people are grappling with issues like unemployment and the loss of health insurance but seniors have a dual set of concerns on their hands: protecting their health and their finances simultaneously.\u00a0 So it is important to understand your Medicare coverage for COVID-19. The attached article answers some common questions that seniors have on this topic. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2020\/04\/30\/how-will-medicare-cover-covid-19-your-top-question.aspx\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15672\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dreamstime_m_176412321covid-19-pandemic-coronavirus.jpg 2000w\" 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>Life has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic and it has been particularly hard on seniors.\u00a0 Today, people are grappling with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899","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=15899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15900,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions\/15900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}