{"id":592,"date":"2015-08-19T08:27:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=592"},"modified":"2015-08-19T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:27:04","slug":"presidential-candidates-should-address-reforms-for-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Presidential candidates should address reforms for Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<span class=\"ng_byline_name\">JACQUELINE ANGEL AND RONALD ANGEL,\u00a0www.star-telegram.com)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the Republican and Democratic candidates debate each other to be their party\u2019s nominee, each candidate must attempt to position him or herself in relation to projected fiscal shortfalls in the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds.\u00a0One change proposed by candidate Chris Christie and others is an increase in the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/opinion\/opn-columns-blogs\/other-voices\/article31477214.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0JACQUELINE ANGEL AND RONALD ANGEL,\u00a0www.star-telegram.com)\u00a0 As the Republican and Democratic candidates debate each other to be their party\u2019s nominee,<\/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-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","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=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}