Tag: Medicare Advantage

Doctor and patient are discussing diagnosis

The brief’s key findings are: Introduction What captures the headlines about Medicare is the exhaustion date of the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund. But HI is only 38 percent of Medicare expenditures today and is projected to decline further, and the HI shortfall – once the trust fund assets are depleted – is only 11 percent of…

Stethoscope on the dollars

Even the best-laid plans can go awry.  Retirees face the risk of a large healthcare spending shock for medical or long-term care (LTC) either because their health insurance involves significant cost sharing or because they lack insurance entirely in the case of LTC…