Medicare: How Timely Reforms Can Prevent Painful Consequence

The President and Congress will have to address Medicare, sooner rather than later. The Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund, plagued by a continuous string of annual cash deficits, will run out of the money to pay all of Medicare’s promised benefits in 2026—three years earlier than the Medicare Trustees projected last year.

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