Tag: long-term care
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…
The brief’s key findings are: The U.S. fertility rate has fallen sharply since the Great Recession. The question is whether it’s a lingering effect of the downturn or a more permanent drop. A review of different measures of fertility suggests a mixed picture. But a state-level analysis shows that while fertility typically rises in expansions, in t…
