全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Medicare reform can no longer be ignored: Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report

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来源类型	Report
规范类型	报告
	Medicare reform can no longer be ignored: Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report
	Joseph Antos; Robert E. Moffit
发表日期	2019-09-04
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	Abstract The latest annual Medicare trustees report highlights the program’s growing fiscal challenge and reflects policymakers’ ongoing failure to prepare Medicare for the future. Program spending on a per-beneficiary basis rose sharply in 2018 and is anticipated to accelerate with the influx of baby boomers turning age 65 and rising health care costs. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (or Part A) trust fund becomes insolvent in 2026, but the program is already in trouble from a budget perspective. More than $300 billion in general tax revenue was needed in 2018 to help fund $740 billion in Medicare spending. Bipartisan legislation will be needed to put the program on a sound basis for future generations. One starting point could be proposals advanced in the president’s budget and other reforms to improve the functioning of traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Adopting premium support, which converts the current uncapped subsidy to a defined contribution, would eliminate the fee-for-service incentives that drive up spending unnecessarily. Such a reform is controversial but less dramatic than many think. Medicare reform can no longer be ignored: Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report
主题	Economics ; Health Care
标签	AEI Economic Perspectives ; health care ; Health care costs ; Medicare
URL	https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/medicare-reform-can-no-longer-be-ignored-warnings-from-the-2019-medicare-trustees-report/
来源智库	American Enterprise Institute (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/206714
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Joseph Antos,Robert E. Moffit. Medicare reform can no longer be ignored: Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report. 2019.

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