{"id":2100,"date":"2016-02-28T20:20:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2016-02-28T20:20:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:20:57","slug":"gerontological-society-of-america-fighting-for-obesity-drug-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"Gerontological Society of America: Fighting for Obesity Drug Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As &#8220;the nation&#8217;s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging,&#8221; the\u00a0Gerontological Society of America recently launched a campaign in Washington to\u00a0reverse a 2003 Medicare regulation banning payment for prescription weight loss drugs. <a href=\"http:\/\/6abc.com\/health\/senior-advocates-fight-medicare-ban-on-weight-loss-drugs\/1222694\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read their post on\u00a0 6abc.com here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 \r\n 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>As &#8220;the nation&#8217;s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging,&#8221; the\u00a0Gerontological<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","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=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}