{"id":46390,"date":"2023-06-16T06:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=46390"},"modified":"2023-06-16T06:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T06:03:56","slug":"free-prescriptions-wont-be-axed-for-millions-of-over-60s-as-government-scraps-controversial-plan-to-raise-age-exemption-to-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/16\/free-prescriptions-wont-be-axed-for-millions-of-over-60s-as-government-scraps-controversial-plan-to-raise-age-exemption-to-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Free prescriptions WON&#8217;T be axed for millions of over-60s as Government scraps controversial plan to raise age exemption to 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37339\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chemist-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chemist-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chemist-1024x423.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chemist-770x318.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chemist-360x149.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chemist.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of over-60s won&#8217;t be made to pay for prescriptions, ministers confirmed today. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12198967\/Major-change-free-prescriptions-WONT-happen-Government-confirms.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Millions of over-60s won&#8217;t be made to pay for prescriptions, ministers confirmed today. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/prescription.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46391,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46390\/revisions\/46391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}