{"id":17364,"date":"2020-12-22T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17364"},"modified":"2020-12-22T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T14:55:38","slug":"what-is-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17364","title":{"rendered":"What is Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare is a federal health plan for people aged 65 years and over that was signed into law in 1965 by the late president Lyndon B. Johnson. \u00a0Over the years it has expanded to add Medicare Part C or Medicare Advantage plans and Part D for prescription drug coverage. In Emily Johnson\u2018s article for Medical News Today, she discusses the different parts of Medicare, what each one covers, enrollment periods and associated costs. Read Ms. Johnson\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/how-to-apply-for-medicare\">here\u2026<\/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>Medicare is a federal health plan for people aged 65 years and over that was signed into law in 1965<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364","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=17364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17365,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17364\/revisions\/17365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}