{"id":24139,"date":"2025-03-17T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24139"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:07:49","slug":"this-valuable-medicare-benefit-is-operating-on-borrowed-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24139","title":{"rendered":"This Valuable Medicare Benefit Is Operating on Borrowed Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By\u00a0Kailey Hagen for The Motley Fool on Mar 16, 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/m\/medicare\/\">Medicare<\/a>\u00a0for a while, you probably understand that your coverage changes from year to year. Some of those changes are good, like the $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs that took effect this year. Others quietly remove or reduce benefits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2025\/03\/16\/medicare-benefit-operating-on-borrowed-time\/\">Read here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-17791\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/iStock-1198265986senior-thinking-pondering-thoughtful-1024x683.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>By\u00a0Kailey Hagen for The Motley Fool on Mar 16, 2025 If you&#8217;ve been on\u00a0Medicare\u00a0for a while, you probably understand that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[385,61,103],"class_list":["post-24139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-telehealth","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24139","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=24139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24140,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24139\/revisions\/24140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}