{"id":7225,"date":"2017-06-27T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:20:59","slug":"the-cost-of-health-care-the-importance-of-knowing-whats-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7225","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Health Care: The Importance of Knowing What\u2019s Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gerry Hafer)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">At the center of just about every conversation in Washington these days is one topic: the Health Care System that will emerge from the current\u00a0tangle of proposals moving through the halls of Congress. Right now, all eyes are on the United States Senate and the deliberations underway on the \u201cBetter Care Reconciliation Act of 2017\u201d (BCRA),\u00a0and what will emerge as the Affordable Health Care Act replacement is pretty much anybody\u2019s guess. <a href=\"http:\/\/amacfoundation.org\/cost-health-care-importance-knowing-whats-ahead\/\">Continue reading here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/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; 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gerry Hafer) At the center of just about every conversation in Washington these days is one topic: the Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","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=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}