{"id":622,"date":"2015-08-20T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=622"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:22:10","slug":"amputees-petition-for-national-change-to-medical-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Amputees petition for national change to medical coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<span class=\"author\">By &#8211; Amanda Roberts and<\/span><span class=\"author\">\u00a0Jason Thomason,\u00a0www.wpsdlocal6.com)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Medicare drafted changes to patient eligibility last month on\u00a0July 16. They would set steeper qualifications for people wanting to qualify for medical services or assistive tools. \u00a0Many believe the goal is to save money, but a local group is concerned that if the changes pass, they will impact much more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpsdlocal6.com\/story\/29836494\/amputees-petition-for-national-change-to-medical-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&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; Amanda Roberts and\u00a0Jason Thomason,\u00a0www.wpsdlocal6.com)\u00a0 Medicare drafted changes to patient eligibility last month on\u00a0July 16. They would set steeper<\/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-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}