{"id":18207,"date":"2021-05-24T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18207"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T15:07:40","slug":"medicare-premiums-may-be-less-affordable-for-60-year-olds-if-program-expanded-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18207","title":{"rendered":"Medicare premiums may be less affordable for 60-year-olds if program expanded, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lauren Jensik for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Although lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60 could provide an additional 24.5 million individuals with coverage, the expansion could make premiums less affordable for some, an Avalere study found.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/medicare-premiums-may-be-less-affordable-for-60-year-olds-if-program-expanded-study-finds.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 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>(By Lauren Jensik for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Although lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60 could provide an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207","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=18207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18208,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions\/18208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}