{"id":17721,"date":"2021-02-24T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17721"},"modified":"2021-02-24T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:21:05","slug":"happy-55th-birthday-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17721","title":{"rendered":"Happy 55th birthday Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, 1965, Medicare was signed into law and began offering coverage in 1966. During the first year, 19 million Americans enrolled in Medicare as of 2020 over 62 million Americans were enrolled in the program. This year, Medicare is celebrating its 55th year of providing health insurance to older Americans. Some things have changed, and some things have stayed the same. To find out what has changed, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/medicare\/medicare-history#medicare-today\">here\u2026<\/a> to read the attached article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Birthday-cupcake-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8956\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Birthday-cupcake-image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Birthday-cupcake-image-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Birthday-cupcake-image.jpg 620w\" 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>On July 30, 1965, Medicare was signed into law and began offering coverage in 1966. During the first year, 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721","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=17721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17722,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17721\/revisions\/17722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}