{"id":110,"date":"2015-07-23T00:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=110"},"modified":"2015-07-23T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:30:03","slug":"medicare-cost-projections-are-down-stunningly-in-2015-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Cost Projections Are Down Stunningly in 2015 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/authors\/kevin-drum\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Drum<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As long as we&#8217;re on the subject of annual trustees reports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems\/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports\/ReportsTrustFunds\/TrusteesReports.html\" target=\"_blank\">the 2015 Medicare report was released today too.<\/a> And if the Social Security report was slightly good news, the Medicare report is, once again, spectacularly good news. Here&#8217;s the 75-year spending projection from ten years ago vs. today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2015\/07\/medicare-cost-projections-are-down-stunningly-2015-report\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Kevin Drum) As long as we&#8217;re on the subject of annual trustees reports, the 2015 Medicare report was released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}