{"id":24152,"date":"2025-03-20T12:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24152"},"modified":"2025-03-20T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:52:39","slug":"whither-medicaid-and-medicare-at-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24152","title":{"rendered":"Whither Medicaid and Medicare at 60?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Stuart M Butler, PhD for JAMA Health Forum on March 20, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medicaid and Medicare will celebrate their 60th birthdays this year. Meanwhile, a new White House administration pledges rapid and radical change. It would be wise to consider how these programs should evolve over the next 30 years to guide action today. For as Yogi Berra allegedly warned, \u201cIf you don\u2019t know where you are going, you\u2019ll end up someplace else.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama-health-forum\/fullarticle\/2831945\">Read here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-7817\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare.jpg 2393w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33572724medicare-390x205.jpg 390w\" 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stuart M Butler, PhD for JAMA Health Forum on March 20, 2025 Medicaid and Medicare will celebrate their 60th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,200,6,1388],"tags":[80,385,61],"class_list":["post-24152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-insurance","category-medicare-general","category-preventive-care","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152","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=24152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24153,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152\/revisions\/24153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}