{"id":17272,"date":"2020-12-04T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:34:58","slug":"retirees-got-a-reprieve-on-their-medicare-part-b-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17272","title":{"rendered":"Retirees got a reprieve on their Medicare Part B premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average 65-year-old couple retiring in 2020 can expect to spend $295,000 on medical expenses throughout retirement even when they\u2019re covered by Medicare according to Fidelity&#8217;s annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate.\u00a0 Medicare Premiums tend to go up from one year to the next and this year is no different; however, lawmakers capped the Medicare premium increase for 2021 to 25% of the increase that normally would&#8217;ve occurred. The premiums could have gone up a lot more.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2020\/12\/04\/retirees-dodged-bullet-medicare-premiums-next-year\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8433\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Medicare-and-Social-Security-Image-700x395.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>The average 65-year-old couple retiring in 2020 can expect to spend $295,000 on medical expenses throughout retirement even when they\u2019re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272","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=17272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17273,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions\/17273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}