{"id":21332,"date":"2023-06-02T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21332"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:00:43","slug":"living-better-what-it-takes-to-get-healthy-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21332","title":{"rendered":"Living Better: What it takes to get healthy in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Allison Aubrey for NPR on May 30, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When COVID-19 hit, Americans watched the news in horror as the death count rose and rose again, with thousands of deaths a day throughout multiple waves. Deaths from the virus were sudden and tragic, but today we&#8217;re living through a slower pandemic that also brings a tragic loss of lives every day \u2014 from preventable, chronic diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/05\/30\/1178926538\/living-better-what-it-takes-to-get-healthy-in-america\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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>By Allison Aubrey for NPR on May 30, 2023 When COVID-19 hit, Americans watched the news in horror as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[92,669],"class_list":["post-21332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","tag-aging","tag-healthy-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21333,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions\/21333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}