Tag: Medicare finances
Giving money to new parents won’t fix the issue. In recent weeks, the government released provisional data for 2024 that show the birth rate remains low in the U.S., and reports suggest that the Trump administration wants to encourage Americans to get married and have more babies. First the facts. Fertility rates have generally been…
Expenditures are high and projected to rise because national healthcare costs are out of control. The 2024 Medicare Trustees Report (released this spring) got almost no attention, contained no bad news. It is true that, under current law, Medicare Part A – the Hospital Insurance (HI) program – faces a long-term deficit, but that deficit…
