{"id":23015,"date":"2024-06-27T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23015"},"modified":"2024-06-27T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:38:59","slug":"long-term-care-insurance-and-medicare-supplemental-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23015","title":{"rendered":"Long-term care insurance and Medicare supplemental insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you age, you may be looking at either long-term insurance, Medicare supplemental insurance, or both. Many experts suggest that seniors get both, but do you need both? Dori Zinn explains how long-term care insurance and Medicare supplemental insurance serve different but important purposes for seniors. Read Ms. Zinn\u2019s article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/why-seniors-should-buy-long-term-care-insurance-and-medicare-supplemental-insurance-according-to-experts\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/why-seniors-should-buy-long-term-care-insurance-and-medicare-supplemental-insurance-according-to-experts\/\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"wp-image-17863\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-462052741medicare-healthcare-insurance-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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>As you age, you may be looking at either long-term insurance, Medicare supplemental insurance, or both. Many experts suggest that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38,32,21,45,6,46],"tags":[80,385,137,539,61,117,94],"class_list":["post-23015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-assisted-living","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-ltc","category-medicare-general","category-medigap","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-long-term-care","tag-long-term-care-insurance","tag-medicare","tag-medigap","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015","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=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23016,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions\/23016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}