{"id":16511,"date":"2020-07-24T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16511"},"modified":"2020-07-24T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:48:33","slug":"pandemic-could-spur-medicare-trust-fund-depletion-by-2022-former-va-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16511","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic could spur Medicare trust fund depletion by 2022, former VA chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic could spur the depletion of the Medicare Part A trust fund as early as 2022, according to former Veteran Affairs chief David Shulkin, MD.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/pandemic-could-spur-medicare-trust-fund-depletion-by-2022-former-va-chief-says.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4820\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Medicare.png 544w\" 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>(By\u00a0Alia Paavola for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The coronavirus pandemic could spur the depletion of the Medicare Part A trust fund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511","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=16511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16512,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16511\/revisions\/16512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}