Tag: Hospital Insurance trust fund
While U.S. healthcare costs as a percentage of GDP are by far the highest in the developed world, the news from the 2024 Medicare Trustees Report is relatively good. It is true that the Hospital Insurance (HI) program faces a long-term deficit, but that deficit is the smallest it has been for more than a…
The brief’s key findings are: The headline from the 2018 Trustees Report was an earlier depletion date for the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund, suggesting Medicare faces growing trouble. However, the trust fund reserves are small compared to HI expenditures, and the HI component only accounts for about a third of the Medicare system. In…
