{"id":173,"date":"2025-12-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2025-12-27T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T17:00:00","slug":"costly-medicare-advantage-myths-that-can-cost-you-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Costly Medicare Advantage Myths That Can Cost You in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Medicare Advantage plans offer an alternative to Original Medicare, often including additional benefits like prescription drugs, hearing, and vision coverage. They typically have lower deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums than Original Medicare plus Medigap. You can switch between plans annually, even with pre-existing conditions. Original Medicare isn&#039;t free and has limited coverage, so comparing options is essential to find the best fit for your health needs.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/15-costly-medicare-advantage-myths-163500603.html\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare Advantage plans offer an alternative to Original Medicare, often including additional benefits like prescription drugs, hearing, and vision coverage. They typically have lower deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums than Original Medicare plus Medigap. You can switch between plans annually, even with pre-existing conditions. Original Medicare isn&#039;t free and has limited coverage, so comparing options is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}