{"id":26411,"date":"2026-08-14T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:18:14","slug":"medicare-premium-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26411","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Premium Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Medicare is health insurance for people 65 or older, funded through payroll taxes during their working years and requiring monthly premiums. \u00a0However, some lawmakers have suggested that Medicare should reduce costs by moving away from its current structure to a \u201cPremium support,\u201d aka a government voucher system. Jisoo Choi, writing for the Medicare Rights Center, explains what is at stake with the Medicare Premium Support system. Read Ms. Choi\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicarerights.org\/medicare-watch\/2026\/08\/13\/whats-at-stake-in-2026-medicare-premium-support\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.medicarerights.org\/medicare-watch\/2026\/08\/13\/whats-at-stake-in-2026-medicare-premium-support\">here\u2026<\/a><\/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>Medicare is health insurance for people 65 or older, funded through payroll taxes during their working years and requiring monthly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,20,6],"tags":[80,385,238,884,61,2142,94],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-healthcare-redesign","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-premium-support","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","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=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26412,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/26412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}