{"id":9340,"date":"2018-01-22T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9340"},"modified":"2018-01-22T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:10:45","slug":"long-term-care-insurance-massive-premium-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9340","title":{"rendered":"Long-term care insurance massive premium increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980s and 1990s, people were told long-term care (LTC) insurance was a way to\u00a0protect against catastrophic illness, things like Alzheimer\u2019s and other forms of dementia, the frailty of age when it\u2019s no longer possible to care for oneself without help. And 7.3 million people own LTC policies; thinking they had secured their future, they\u2019re shocked to find that insurers are hitting them with massive premium increases. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benefitspro.com\/2018\/01\/19\/long-term-care-insurance-safety-net-has-huge-holes?kw=Long-term+care+insurance+safety+net+has+huge+holes&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=BenefitsPRO&amp;cn=20180122&amp;src=EMC-Email_editorial&amp;pt=Daily&amp;page_all=1\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8007\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000023372772Small-700x465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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>In the 1980s and 1990s, people were told long-term care (LTC) insurance was a way to\u00a0protect against catastrophic illness, things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340","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=9340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9341,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9340\/revisions\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}