{"id":2523,"date":"2016-04-09T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2016-04-09T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:58:32","slug":"the-advantage-of-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"The Advantage of Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Congressman Joe Pitts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOutside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector,\u201d Ronald Reagan once stated. One of the things the private sector does best is healthcare. To date, one of the best public-private partnerships illustrating this point is the Medicare Advantage program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the Administration announced Monday that a special type of Medicare Advantage plan \u2013 an Employer Group Waiver Plan \u2013 will receive significant cuts next year. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pitts.house.gov\/advantage-medicare-advantage\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The 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 \r\n 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Congressman Joe Pitts) \u201cOutside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}