{"id":24623,"date":"2025-07-10T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24623"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:58:02","slug":"24623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24623","title":{"rendered":"Medicare is turning 60 soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Medicare program is turning 60 at the end of July (30th) and is still going.\u00a0 A recent survey of non-Medicare beneficiaries found that 80 percent of them are concerned that \u201cMedicare would not exist by the time that they would be eligible for the program.\u201d Although they liked the program, 34 percent did not want to raise taxes or reduce benefits to make sure that Medicare continued. Julia Bonavitacola, writing for AJMC, reports on how the survey findings highlight the lack of education about health care costs in retirement. Read Ms. Bonavitacola\u2019s article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/view\/americans-uncertain-about-medicare-s-future-as-anniversary-approaches\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/view\/americans-uncertain-about-medicare-s-future-as-anniversary-approaches\"> here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9838\" style=\"width:144px;height:auto\" 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: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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>The Medicare program is turning 60 at the end of July (30th) and is still going.\u00a0 A recent survey of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6],"tags":[80,238,61,94],"class_list":["post-24623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623","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=24623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24625,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623\/revisions\/24625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}