{"id":18785,"date":"2021-09-08T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18785"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:50:46","slug":"the-improving-medicare-coverage-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18785","title":{"rendered":"The Improving Medicare Coverage Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Improving Medicare Coverage Act would expand Medicare to at least 23 million people. This new legislation will lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60 from 65. It is estimated that up to 25 percent of those ages 60 to 64 go without insurance before turning 65. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2021\/09\/07\/new-bill-lowers-medicare-eligibility-age-to-60-412-120839\/?slreturn=20210808081101\">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 Improving Medicare Coverage Act would expand Medicare to at least 23 million people. This new legislation will lower the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785","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=18785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}