Brief Examines Medicare’s Financing, Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
"Financing Medicare: An Issue Brief," Kaiser Family Foundation: The issue brief provides an overview of Medicare's financing and the fiscal challenges the program faces in the coming decades. The brief describes how Medicare is financed and examines several methods of assessing its long-term financial outlook. It also looks at what is driving the program's growth, including the nation's broader trend toward higher health care costs that also is affecting private-sector spending. The brief was prepared by Health Policy Alternatives (Kaiser Family Foundation release 1/11).
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