{"id":20160,"date":"2022-08-30T06:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2022-08-30T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:04:42","slug":"the-government-will-no-longer-be-sending-free-covid-19-tests-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20160","title":{"rendered":"The government will no longer be sending free COVID-19 tests to Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Tayana Archie for NPR) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government is putting a pause on sending free COVID-19 testing kits to Americans starting in September, due to a lack of funding. Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/29\/1119880329\/the-government-will-no-longer-be-sending-free-covid-19-tests-to-americans\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/08\/29\/1119880329\/the-government-will-no-longer-be-sending-free-covid-19-tests-to-americans\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Notice: 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Tayana Archie for NPR) The federal government is putting a pause on sending free COVID-19 testing kits to Americans starting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14,52],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-20160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medical-technology","category-pandemic","tag-covid-19-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160","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=20160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20161,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions\/20161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}