{"id":24150,"date":"2025-03-20T12:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24150"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:42:27","slug":"truly-voluntary-medicare-will-bring-down-health-costs-for-all-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24150","title":{"rendered":"Truly Voluntary Medicare Will Bring Down Health Costs for All \u2013 Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ashley Bateman for The Heartland Institute on March 19, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Congress grapples with how to cut health care spending by $880 billion in the next budget, one move that could permanently bring down costs in both the public and private sectors is to decouple Medicare from Social Security, says Twila Brase, president, and co-founder of the Citizens Council for Health Freedom. Brase spoke with\u00a0<\/em>Health Care News\u00a0contributor Ashley Bateman about how that can happen and why it should, now more than ever.<\/em> Read here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Ashley Bateman for The Heartland Institute on March 19, 2025 As Congress grapples with how to cut health care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,200,6],"tags":[80,385,61],"class_list":["post-24150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-cms","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24150","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=24150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24151,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24150\/revisions\/24151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}