{"id":73,"date":"2025-10-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:00:00","slug":"what-is-medicare-and-what-does-it-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"What Is Medicare, and What Does It Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Medicare is a federal health insurance program for those 65+ or with certain disabilities, consisting of Parts A (hospital care), B (doctor visits), C (Medicare Advantage), and D (prescription drugs). Original Medicare includes Parts A and B, with separate Part D and Medigap options. Medicare Advantage combines A, B, and usually D with extra benefits. Costs vary by part, with penalties for late enrollment. Medicare doesn&#039;t cover most dental, vision, hearing aids, or long-term care.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdwallet.com\/article\/insurance\/medicare\/what-is-medicare\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicare is a federal health insurance program for those 65+ or with certain disabilities, consisting of Parts A (hospital care), B (doctor visits), C (Medicare Advantage), and D (prescription drugs). Original Medicare includes Parts A and B, with separate Part D and Medigap options. Medicare Advantage combines A, B, and usually D with extra benefits. [&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-73","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\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}