{"id":14954,"date":"2025-10-28T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/medicare-staffing-raises-alarm-with-open-enrollment-underway\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:20:34","slug":"medicare-staffing-raises-alarm-with-open-enrollment-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/medicare-staffing-raises-alarm-with-open-enrollment-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare staffing raises alarm with open enrollment underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health policy experts on Tuesday urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to boost staffing, noting that the government shutdown has only hindered services.  This staffing shortage couldn&rsquo;t have come at a worse time, as open enrollment for Medicare plans began earlier this month&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5577102-medicare-staffing-raises-alarm-with-open-enrollment-underway\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health policy experts on Tuesday urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to boost staffing, noting that the government shutdown has only hindered services. This staffing shortage couldn&rsquo;t have come at a worse time, as open enrollment for Medicare plans began earlier this month&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}