For the next generation of taxpayers and retirees, there is no better option than Medicare premium support. It will guarantee better choices and broader access to quality care, faster innovation, less waste and fraud, and superior cost control.
Medicare is financially unsustainable in its current form. TheMedicare Trustees' 2008 estimate of the program's total excess costs is $85.6 trillion. The Trustees acknowledge an important,flawed assumption used in developing their estimate of excesscosts. If corrected, Medicare's excess costs would increase,underscoring the need to reform Medicare quickly and substantially.