{"id":1370961,"date":"2023-12-04T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=94468dd1f303c20907637e144b59ae08"},"modified":"2023-12-04T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:00:27","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-disadvantage-many-elderly-and-disabled-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/04\/medicare-advantage-plans-disadvantage-many-elderly-and-disabled-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage Plans Disadvantage Many Elderly and Disabled People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When retired veterinarian Richard Timmins went on a Medicare Advantage plan in 2016, he admits that he knew very little about Traditional Medicare (also called Original Medicare) or the more than 3,800 Medicare Advantage plans that are marketed to seniors and the disabled. &ldquo;I went to a so-called Medicare Information Session and took the recommendation of the speaker and ran with it...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/medicare-advantage-plans-disadvantage-many-elderly-and-disabled-people\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/medicare-advantage-plans-disadvantage-many-elderly-and-disabled-people\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For-profit Medicare Advantage program restrictions routinely result in delays and the denial of necessary health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8940,3607,35894,5718,4,71813,71814,1093,71815],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370963,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370961\/revisions\/1370963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}