{"id":21846,"date":"2023-09-26T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21846"},"modified":"2023-09-26T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:43:24","slug":"who-is-eligible-for-medicare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21846","title":{"rendered":"Who is eligible for Medicare?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older. However, certain younger people with disabilities, people with End-Stage Renal Disease, or patients with Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease can receive Medicare regardless of age. There are three parts to Medicare that will help cover specific services. What are those parts? Margie Zable Fisher explains who is eligible for Medicare and the rules on who may be eligible to get Medicare benefits before age 65. Read Ms. Fisher\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/eligible-medicare-experts-explain-rules-162227989.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/eligible-medicare-experts-explain-rules-162227989.html\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w\" 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>Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older. However, certain younger people with disabilities,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16,6,9,46,15],"tags":[80,67,61,62,65,117],"class_list":["post-21846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-medicaid","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-cms","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-medigap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846","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=21846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21847,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846\/revisions\/21847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}