{"id":1867,"date":"2016-02-03T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2016-02-03T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T16:57:59","slug":"buying-supplemental-insurance-can-be-hard-for-younger-medicare-beneficiaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Buying Supplemental Insurance Can Be Hard For Younger Medicare Beneficiaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Danny Thompson\u2019s kidneys have failed and he needs a transplant but in some ways, he\u2019s lucky: Both of his sons want to give him one of theirs, and his Medicare coverage will take care of most of his expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the 53-year-old Californian is facing another daunting obstacle: He doesn\u2019t have the money for his share of the medical bills and follow-up drugs, and he can\u2019t buy supplemental insurance to help cover his costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating to be in the shape I\u2019m in,\u201d said Thompson, who depends on dialysis instead of his kidneys to cleanse his blood. \u201cMy plan is to get a transplant so I can go back to work.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/buying-supplemental-insurance-can-be-hard-for-younger-medicare-beneficiaries-2\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25873772&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_zGoVYuW2biXoWaT1AsWXK3pHNYXclLxUiK5QBiV4XOsT1iFqO9bllQkVcE0QTrSD4_1UZMa9w8cvCjQhTl2BbI9lzKw&amp;_hsmi=25873772\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/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>(By &#8211; Susan Jaffe, Kaiser Health News) Danny Thompson\u2019s kidneys have failed and he needs a transplant but in some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}