{"id":68360,"date":"2023-05-29T00:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=68360"},"modified":"2023-05-29T00:44:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T00:44:55","slug":"the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=68360","title":{"rendered":"The Policy, and Politics, of Medicare Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Advantage, the private-sector alternative to original Medicare, now enrolls nearly half of all Medicare beneficiaries. But it remains controversial because \u2014 while most of its subscribers like the extra benefits many plans provide \u2014 the program frequently costs the federal government more than if those seniors remained in the fully public program&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/podcast\/podcast-khn-what-the-health-290-medicare-advantage-policy-politics-march-23-2023\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Advantage, the private-sector alternative to original Medicare, now enrolls nearly half of all Medicare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/68360-the-policy-and-politics-of-medicare-advantage-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}