{"id":25231,"date":"2025-12-03T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25231"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:26:01","slug":"thinking-about-making-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25231","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about making a change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare Advantage (also known as \u201cPart C\u201d) is a Medicare-approved plan offered by a private company that offers an alternative to Original Medicare. Medicare Advantage plans \u201cbundle\u201d Medicare Parts A, B, and usually Part D. Many plans offer extra benefits like dental, over-the-counter drugs, and gym memberships that Original Medicare doesn\u2019t. Sounds like a good deal, or is it? Christy Bieber, writing for The Motley Fool, outlines three reasons you may want to ditch your Medicare Advantage plan this year. Read Ms Bieber\u2019s article <a title=\"here\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/retirement\/2025\/12\/03\/3-reasons-to-finally-ditch-medicare-advantage-this\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>Medicare Advantage (also known as \u201cPart C\u201d) is a Medicare-approved plan offered by a private company that offers an alternative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,46,15],"tags":[385,61,62,65,117],"class_list":["post-25231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-advantage","category-medigap","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-medigap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231","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=25231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25232,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25231\/revisions\/25232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}