{"id":22803,"date":"2021-07-15T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2021-07-15T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T13:37:08","slug":"a-little-surpise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22803","title":{"rendered":"A little surpise&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I sit here contemplating if I should go out on the bike since the rain has stopped, a little surprise in the infrastructure bill that is getting ready to get passed by reconcilliation, which will bypass the filibuster, made me smile a bit&#8230;in that 3.5 trillion dollar bill, the dems have closed one of the biggest holes in medicare&#8230;that it doesn&#8217;t cover dental, vision, or hearing problems and all of us who have medicare have to pay for all of that out of pocket&#8230;even medicare advantage like I have only covers tiny amounts of those&#8230;no real dental work&#8230;maybe one cleaning a year&#8230;but that&#8217;s about it for dental&#8230;.but this bill will cover everything including hearing aids, glasses and all dental care&#8230;for me, that is really welcome since I have been putting off the thousands of dollars in dental work I need to be able to eat ice cream again and fix the loose molar I have on my right side&#8230;.so, I guess I can suffer a few more months if it will save me a couple of thousand dollars&#8230;it probably wouldn&#8217;t take effect until the next sign up period that ends Jan 1 of next year&#8230;.I&#8217;ll keep my fingers crossed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;as I sit here contemplating if I should go out on the bike since the rain has stopped, a little surprise in the infrastructure bill that is getting ready to get passed by reconcilliation, which will bypass the filibuster, made me smile a bit&#8230;in that 3.5 trillion dollar bill, the dems have closed one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=22803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little surpise&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2991,401],"class_list":["post-22803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-increased-coverage","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}