{"id":18505,"date":"2021-07-20T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18505"},"modified":"2021-07-20T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:17:35","slug":"the-disconnection-between-medicares-financial-outlook-and-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18505","title":{"rendered":"The disconnection between Medicare&#8217;s financial outlook and Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James C. Capretta, Senior Fellow and Milton Friedman Chair, whose article appearing on AEI, asks: Expand Medicare? How about we fix it first? Mr. Capretta discusses the \u201cdisconnect between Medicare agenda emerging in Congress and the program\u2019s financial outlook\u2026before expanding the program further; Congress ought to ensure its current commitments can be met.\u201d To read Mr. Capretta\u2019s article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/articles\/expand-medicare-how-about-we-fix-it-first\/?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAF-YlTguSKupYPSHklYphL9TZVHt8mX5IYReWx-c1CamxM7kYHH9my6QaZ7VrgUCpzSc7NoeUut6IOuKtxN6ogeINkH3iV8zRkDD2FReWhTogA\">here\u2026<\/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<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>James C. Capretta, Senior Fellow and Milton Friedman Chair, whose article appearing on AEI, asks: Expand Medicare? How about we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,9,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","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\/18505","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=18505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18506,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions\/18506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}