Tag: Medicare
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…
Thomas Uttormark When Thomas Uttormark turned 65 in 2010, he researched his Medigap options on the Medicare.gov website and chose a plan with a premium of around $100 a month. As his premium inched up over the next two years, he decided to apply to another insurance company to see if he could reduce t…
