Tag: Medicare
The brief’s key findings are: The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) included roughly 165 provisions to improve Medicare’s finances. The Medicare Trustees Report, which reflects the ACA provisions, shows dramatically lower cost projections for Medicare in the future. The Medicare actuaries also produce alternative projections assuming that the legislated restraints on growth in payments to…
Beneficiaries need to repay Treasury loan, and underlying problem likely to persist. Congress solved a lot of problems with its Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. It avoided a standoff over the budget and the debt ceiling, provided breathing room for the Social Security Disability Insurance program, and eliminated profitable Social Security claiming strategies. It also…
