{"id":941635,"date":"2026-10-22T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T04:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:20:11","slug":"opinion-oz-lets-medicare-part-d-subsidies-expire-premiums-remain-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/941635\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Oz lets Medicare Part D subsidies expire. Premiums remain stable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GP5PQJADFZEXLDZX67ZW7CDYKU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Health care keeps growing more expensive because the American system is less and less a free market. Fewer people pay directly for medical care, and government heavily subsidizes demand without increasing supply, a sure route to higher prices. The Biden administration worsened these dynamics by making it too easy to sign up for zero-premium insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act \u2014 which invited rampant fraud \u2014 and by extending unnecessary Medicare Part D subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health care keeps growing more expensive because the American system is less and less a free market. Fewer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-941635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}