{"id":348,"date":"2011-10-16T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2011-10-16T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T17:23:00","slug":"how-medicare-fails-the-elderly-nytimes-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"How Medicare Fails the Elderly &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/how-medicare-fails-the-elderly.html?pagewanted=1&amp;tntemail1=y&amp;_r=1&amp;emc=tnt\">How Medicare Fails the Elderly &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HERE is the dirty little secret of health care in America for the elderly, the one group we all assume has universal coverage thanks to the 1965 Medicare law: what Medicare paid for then is no longer what recipients need or want today. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Goes on to delineate some of the problems with the Medicare payment system, that are not news if you&#8217;ve been paying attention, but always good to get it out there for further discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Medicare Fails the Elderly &#8211; NYTimes.com: &#8220;HERE is the dirty little secret of health care in America for the elderly, the one group we all assume has universal coverage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Medicare Fails the Elderly &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,46,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life-care","category-ipab","category-medicare","category-payment-reform"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}