{"id":318,"date":"2015-08-05T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:53:34","slug":"why-are-hearing-disabilities-not-covered-by-insurance-and-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Why are hearing disabilities not covered by insurance and Medicare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Brendan Williams, The Hill)<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a treatable disability that afflicts tens of millions of Americans and yet is generally uncovered by insurance or Medicare.\u00a0 You would think it would prompt a civil rights uprising.\u00a0 Mandates to treat other conditions abound.\u00a0 For example, 23 states have insurance mandates for bariatric surgery or gastric bypass to assist those who are morbidly obese. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/healthcare\/250195-why-are-hearing-disabilities-not-covered-by-insurance-and\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d 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; socialsecurityreport.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>(By &#8211;\u00a0Brendan Williams, The Hill) Imagine a treatable disability that afflicts tens of millions of Americans and yet is generally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","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=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}