{"id":5987,"date":"2017-02-26T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2017-02-26T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T13:12:10","slug":"the-importance-of-being-well-informed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"The importance of being well-informed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no substitute for being better informed, unless you want to leave your financial well-being totally up to third parties. While professionals are important, your&#8217;re far better off knowing as much as you can about a before turning your affairs over to someone else, and it&#8217;s even more critical if you&#8217;re taking the &#8220;self-help&#8221; route.\u00a0Elliot Raphaelson, in a post \u00a0on\u00a0www.heraldtribune.com, provides some suggested information sources that can help you get a better understanding of the two most-important senior programs&#8211;Social Security and Medicare. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/news\/20170225\/personal-financial-planning-reading-list\" target=\"_blank\">Read his article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no substitute for being better informed, unless you want to leave your financial well-being totally up to third parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}