{"id":25387,"date":"2026-01-05T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25387"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:06:44","slug":"medicare-basics-key-points-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25387","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Basics: Key Points You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Retirement planning can be a daunting milestone. Social Security alone can give the soon-to-be-retired considerable angst when it comes time to make the key decision&#8230;especially since many of them are permanent and irrevocable. On top of all that comes Medicare, another hurdle for those hitting the age 65 milestone. If you&#8217;re confused, don&#8217;t fret. The Motley Fool&#8217;s Maurie Backman, in a recent post msn.com, recognizes the importance of knowing the details associated with Medicare, like when to enroll, what&#8217;s covered and what isn&#8217;t, and shares four key aspects of this massive senior health program. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/retirement\/4-things-every-retiree-needs-to-know-about-medicare-in-2026\/ar-AA1TpIDC?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds&amp;apiversion=v2&amp;domshim=1&amp;noservercache=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/retirement\/4-things-every-retiree-needs-to-know-about-medicare-in-2026\/ar-AA1TpIDC?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds&amp;apiversion=v2&amp;domshim=1&amp;noservercache=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1\">Click here<\/a> to read her article&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><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.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retirement planning can be a daunting milestone. Social Security alone can give the soon-to-be-retired considerable angst when it comes time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[61,1996],"class_list":["post-25387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","tag-medicare","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25389,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25387\/revisions\/25389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}