{"id":13091,"date":"2019-04-23T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13091"},"modified":"2019-04-23T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T11:24:02","slug":"seven-years-from-now-medicare-part-a-will-be-in-dire-straits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13091","title":{"rendered":"Seven years from now, Medicare Part A will be in dire straits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According this year\u2019s Medicare trustee report, seven years from now, Medicare Part A will only be able to reimburse hospitals 89 percent of costs for hospitals stays and related services and that figure falls to 77 percent in 20 years. Medicare Parts B and D are not in as dire straits since those are funded by patient premiums and non-Medicare tax revenues. Read<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthexec.com\/topics\/healthcare-economics\/medicare-insolvency\"> article here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/iStock_000025513411Small-700x559-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The 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; medicarereport.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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According this year\u2019s Medicare trustee report, seven years from now, Medicare Part A will only be able to reimburse hospitals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13092,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}