{"id":18542,"date":"2021-07-23T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18542"},"modified":"2021-07-23T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:50:43","slug":"adding-dental-vision-and-hearing-to-medicare-will-be-costly-but-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18542","title":{"rendered":"Adding dental, vision and hearing to Medicare will be costly, but worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congressional Democrats are expected to submit a bill containing a provision to expand traditional Medicare later this year. The expansion, which will be the biggest since Congress added a drug benefit in 2003, will include dental, vision, and hearing; however, the Democrats have not yet released details of their new plan. Howard Gleckman, a Forbes contributor, says, &#8220;Make no mistake, adding these new benefits would be costly, but they would go a long way to improving the health and well-being of millions of older adults.&#8221; Read Mr. Gleckman\u2019s column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/howardgleckman\/2021\/07\/22\/adding-dental-vision-and-hearing-to-traditional-medicare-would-be-expensive-but-important\/?sh=2d7f81ad5701\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15015\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg 583w\" 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>The Congressional Democrats are expected to submit a bill containing a provision to expand traditional Medicare later this year. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542","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=18542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18544,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542\/revisions\/18544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}