Medicare Solvency Projections Underscore Need for Reform

Because the hospital insurance trust fund is primarily financed by payroll taxes, changes in employment and wage growth have a large impact on ...

Latest Medicare Solvency Projections Highlight the…

Latest Medicare Solvency Projections Highlight the Need for Reforms to Improve Medicare's Fiscal Outlook ... A new report from the Medicare ...

Medicare: New Spending Estimates Underscore Need for Reform

Although the short-term outlook of Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund improved in the last year, Medicare's long-term prospects have worsened...

Additional Five Years of Medicare Trust Fund Solvency Projected ...

As the Center has noted in the past, there are various ways to address Medicare's solvency by raising revenues, reducing spending, or both. For ...

Medicare funds slated to run out by 2036 without changes

The latest report from the Medicare Board of Trustees gives Medicare a couple more years than projected to run out of money, ...

Social Security and Medicare are going insolvent. Neither Biden nor ...

Social Security is expected to hit insolvency in 2035, while the portion of Medicare that pays for hospital visits and other medical care will be insolvent by ...

House Budget Committee Hearing on Medicare and Social Security ...

Congress has been reluctant to address Medicare's long-term solvency in recent years—due largely to the scale of the financial adjustments ...

Will Medicare really run out of money in 2031? Here's what experts ...

Pope maintains that Medicare spending on new procedures is most responsible for the projected surge in the national debt over coming decades. Recent increases ...

Social Security projected to cut benefits in 2035 barring a fix

"Since I took office, my economic plan and strong recovery from the pandemic have helped extend Medicare solvency by a decade, with today's ...

Real Help for Medicare and the Deficit

The Affordable Care Act includes many measures to control costs as well as models for reform that will increase the solvency of the Medicare program and lower ...

Letter: Improving the Strength and Solvency of Medicare

Were the ACA not the law, the projected long-term difference between HI outlays and revenues would equal 3.89 percent of taxable payroll. With ...

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The long-range Medicare projections have always been computed on a nominal ... rates, but the results are still large enough to underscore the ...

Social Security and Medicare Funds Face Insolvency, Report Finds

Meanwhile, Medicare's hospital insurance fund is expected to be depleted in 2026 — the same date that was projected a year ago. At that point, ...

Analysis of the 2022 Medicare Trustees' Report

This rapidly rising spending underscores the need to reduce Medicare costs. Our Health Savers Initiative has proposed policies to equalize ...

Predicting Medicare Cost Growth - Improving Health Care ... - NCBI

The prodigious level of spending makes health care important, but it is the fearsome growth of health care costs that has put health care reform on the national ...

Medicare solvency: IRA debate shows renewed interest

... Medicare's solvency, an issue that we at BPC have long held concerns about. ... These new predictions only underscore the volatility we are facing ...

Medicare go-broke date extended to 2036, but warning bells ...

The Medicare trustees' new projection for insolvency is five years later than previous forecasts, but budget hawks warned action is still needed to shore up ...

Medicare and Social Security insolvency is right around the corner

And it's also important to note that these projections change. Medicare actually gained a few years of solvency during the pandemic. But the ...

Health Reform Strengthens Medicare, Doesn't “Rob” It

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the ACA will reduce Medicare's projected spending by $716 billion over the 2013-2023 period. As ...

Social Security is projected to be insolvent a year earlier than ...

Annual government reports released on Tuesday on the solvency of the programs underscored ... have substantial influence on Medicare spending on ...